Definify.com

Definition 2024


Ы

Ы

Ы U+042B, Ы
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YERU
Ъ
[U+042A]
Cyrillic Ь
[U+042C]
See also: ы, , , and Appendix:Variations of "i"

Translingual

Letter

Ы upper case (lower case ы)

  1. a letter in several Cyrillic alphabets

Russian

Letter

Ы (Y) (upper case, lower case ы)

  1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.

ы

ы


Cyrillic letter Ы ы (Ы ы), normal above, italics below.
ы U+044B, ы
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YERU
ъ
[U+044A]
Cyrillic ь
[U+044C]
See also: Ы, , , and Appendix:Variations of "i"
Handwritten forms

Ossetian

Letter

ы (y) (upper case Ы)

  1. The thirty-fourth letter of the Ossetian alphabet

See also

  • (Cyrillic script letters) А (A) а (a), Ӕ (Æ) ӕ (æ), Б (B) б (b), В (V) в (v), Г (G) г (g), Гъ (Ǧ) гъ (ǧ), Д (D) д (d), Дж (Ǵ) дж (ǵ), Дз (Ʒ) дз (ʒ), Е (E) е (e), З (Z) з (z), И (I) и (i), Й (J) й (j), К (K) к (k), Къ (K’) къ (k’), Л (L) л (l), М (M) м (m), Н (N) н (n), О (O) о (o), П (P) п (p), Пъ (P’) пъ (p’), Р (R) р (r), С (S) с (s), Т (T) т (t), Тъ () тъ (t’), У (U) у (u), Ф (F) ф (f), Х (X) х (x), Хъ (Q) хъ (q), Ц (C) ц (c), Цъ (C’) цъ (c’), Ч () ч (), Чъ (Ḱ’) чъ (ḱ’), Ы (Y) ы (y)

Russian

Etymology

Like many Cyrillic letters, originally the letter "y"/"yery" was formed from a ligature: "", formed from "ъ" and "і" (formerly written either dotless or with two dots (see "ї")) or "и", whose former letterform resembled "н". In medieval manuscripts, it is almost always found as "ъі" or "ъи". Once the letters "ъ" and "ь" subsequently lost their values as vowels in the Slavic languages, the current simplified form "ы" evolved.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɨ]

Etymology 1

Letter

ы (y) (lower case, upper case Ы)

  1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. Its name is ы (y) or еры́ (jerý) (obsolete), pronounced as [ɨ] (close central unrounded vowel) - it is a vowel that is somewhat like the i in bill with the tongue retracted. It is preceded by Ъ () and followed by Ь (ʹ) in the Russian alphabet.
See also

Noun

ы (y) n inan (indeclinable)

  1. The Cyrillic letter Ы (Y), ы (y).

Etymology 2

Interjection

ы (y)

  1. (Internet slang) lol, used to express laughter. Usually used as "ы-ы-ы", to show the crying sound you make after you were laughing for too long.
  2. (Internet slang) ы? as a closing clause: Understand? Agree?