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ley

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lemolang.

See lea.

ley (plural leys)

  1. (agriculture) Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
  2. A ley line.
    • 2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic:
      For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]
  3. Alternative spelling of lea.

arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing

ley (not comparable)

  1. (agriculture) Fallow; unseeded.
  2. (agriculture) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.

ley

  1. Archaic form of lye.

ley

  1. (obsolete) Law.

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

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ley

  1. leave

Inherited from Spanish ley.

ley

  1. law

ley

  1. (Maasina) in
    A ɗuunnii sukkara ley cafe ɗe.
    You put too much sugar in the coffee.
    O tummbeke ley akalawal mobel am.
    He got into the back of my truck.
    Taa ŋawlunduree ley suudu ga, njehee sella.
    Don't wrestle in the house, go outside.
  2. under

Inherited from Old Spanish ley, from Latin lēgem (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).

ley f (Hebrew spelling ליי)[1]

  1. (law) law

    • 1936 January 17, La Vara‎[1], number 699, New York, page 4:
      […] די אינטראר אין לה איסקולה די ליי די נוייורק אי פאסאר לוס איגזאמיניס די ּּּאיסטראדהּּּ (באר איגזאמינישייונס).
      […] de entrar en la eskola de ley de Nuyork i pasar los egzámenes de estrada (bar egzamineyshons).
      […] of getting into the law school of New York and passing the bar examinations.
    • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim‎[2], volumes 26–28, page 71:
      Ya meldatesh por seguro en las gazetas ke el governo esta aparejando una ley grasias a la kuala no va aver mas estos terribles "bekchis" vinidos espesilamente de Anadol i los kualos kon sus espavoresientes sopas azian tanto espantar a todos akeyos ke tienen el koraje de durmir repozados en sus lechos.
      Now you certainly read in the papers that the government is preparing a law thanks to whoever is no longer having more [of] these terrible ‘guards’, especially from Anadol, coming with their frightening clubs, terrifying everybody who has the courage the sleep soundly in bed.

  2. ^ “ley”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasury of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

ley

  1. alternative form of leye (“clearing”)

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Inherited from Latin lēgem (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).

ley f

  1. (law) law
  2. (religion) commandment; law
  3. (religion) religion; faith

Inherited from Latin lēgem, accusative of lēx. Compare Old French lei, loi.

ley f (oblique plural leys, nominative singular **ley, nominative plural leys)

  1. law

Inherited from Latin lēgem (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).

ley f

  1. (law) law
  2. (religion) commandment; law
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 76r.:
      […] ⁊ uinierõ ⁊ fraguarõ la caſa ⁊ fizierõ ẏ altar. ⁊ ofreçierõ ſo olocauſt. como es eſc̃pto en la ley demoẏſen. uarõ de dios
      [ […] E vinieron e fraguaron la casa e fizieron ý altar. E ofrecieron so olocaust como es escripto en la ley de Moysen, varon de Dios.]
      And they came and set the house and made an altar there. And they offered their burnt offering according to what is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.

ley f (plural leys)

  1. obsolete spelling of lei

Inherited from Old Spanish ley, from Latin lēgem (whence English legal and legitimate), from Proto-Italic *lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s, from *leǵ- (“to gather”).

ley f (plural leyes)

  1. law (a well-established characteristic of nature)
  2. law (body of rules issued by a legislative body)
  3. (law) law (particular piece of legislation)
  4. (religion) religion; credence; worship of a god

Borrowed from Spanish ley, from Old Spanish ley, from Latin lēgem.

ley (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜌ᜔) (archaic)

  1. law
    Synonyms: batas, kautusan
  2. ordinance
    Synonyms: ordinansa, kautusan