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Chay is a masculine name. It is either a diminutive of Charles, [1] ultimately derived from Germanic Karal, Karel, Karl, meaning “man”, or it may be Gaelic in origin, meaning “Fairy Tale” [citation needed]. This unusual name surfaced into the public in Britain in the mid-1970s, with the publicity for yachtsman Chay Blyth.
The usual modern pronunciation of this word is , while a transcription of the Biblical and Mishnaic pronunciation would have likely been [ħai̯] (with a pharyngeal consonant). In Hebrew, the related word chaya ( חיה ) means "living thing" or "animal", and is derived from the Hebrew word chai ( חי ), meaning "alive".
Chai (Persian: چای chay) [18] might have been derived from Northern Chinese pronunciation of chá, [19] which passed overland to Central Asia and Persia, where it picked up the Persian ending -yi before passing on to Russian, Arabic, Turkish, etc. [4] [2] The chai pronunciation first entered English either via Russian or Arabic in the early ...
Chai most often refers to: . Chai, a word for tea in numerous languages; Masala chai, a blend of black tea and herbs and spices, originating in India; Chai (symbol), the Hebrew word for life and prominent Jewish symbol
Cài (Chinese: 蔡) is a Chinese-language surname that derives from the name of the ancient Cai state.In 2019 it was the 38th most common surname in China, [1] but the 9th most common in Taiwan (as of 2018), where it is usually romanized as "Tsai" (based on Wade-Giles romanization of Standard Mandarin [2]), "Tsay", or "Chai" and the 8th most common in Singapore, where it is usually romanized ...
Chay (given name) Chay Weng Yew (1928–2004), Singaporean weightlifter; Jean-Yves Chay (born 1948), French football manager; Chay Wai Chuen (born 1950), Singaporean politician; Chay Yew (born 1965), American playwright; Mark Chay (born 1982), Singaporean swimmer; Chesster Chay (born 1989), Filipino actor
Am Yisrael Chai (Hebrew: עם ישראל חי; meaning "The people of Israel live") is a slogan of Jewish solidarity, popularized by several different songs which incorporate it. The Forward has placed "Am Yisrael Chai" second only to " Hatikvah ", the current national anthem of Israel , as "an anthem of the Jewish people".
This does not mean these differences are, or must be, always distinguished; if you speak a dialect that does not distinguish "father" and "farther", for example, simply ignore the difference between FAH-dhər and FAR-dhər. For a more thorough discussion of the sounds and dialectal variation, see Help:IPA/English.