• Arabic:
• Chinese: 付 (fù)
• Czech: platit
• Danish: betale
• Dutch: betalen
• Finnish: maksaa
• French: payer
• Frisian: betelje
• German: bezahlen, zahlen
• Hungarian: fizetni, kifizetni
• Irish: íoc, díol
• Italian: pagare
• Japanese: 払う (はらう, harau)
• Korean: 지불하다 (jibulhada)
• Old Frisian: jelda
• Polish: płacić , zapłacić
• Portuguese: pagar
• Russian: платить (platít’) , заплатить (zaplatít’)
• Slovene: plačati
• Spanish: pagar
• Swedish: betala

• Czech: vyplatit se
• Danish: betale sig
• Finnish: kannattaa
• Portuguese: compensar
• Russian: окупаться (okupát’s’a) , окупиться (okupít’s’a)
• Slovene: izplačati se
• Spanish: pagar
• Swedish: betala sig, löna sig

Translations to be checked

• ttbc Dutch: betalen
• ttbc Esperanto: pagi
• ttbc Estonian: maksma, tasuma
• ttbc French: verser (une somme), régler
• ttbc Guarani: epyme'ẽ (h-)
• ttbc Indonesian: bayar, membayar, melunasi
• ttbc Interlingua: pagar
• ttbc Japanese: 払う (はらう, harau), 支払う (しはらう, shiharau)
• ttbc Norwegian: betale
• ttbc Old English: ġieldan
• ttbc Romanian: plati
• Tupinambá: moepy, epyme'eng (s-)

Derived terms

• pay attention
• pay back
• pay down
• pay forward
• pay in
• pay off
• pay one's dues
• pay respect, pay one's respects
• pay the piper
• pay up

Noun

1. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.

Translations

Kurdish

Noun

1. share

Quechua

Pronoun

1. he; she

Turkish

Noun

1. portion

Synonyms

• hak

Pay may refer to:

• A wage or salary earned for work
• The process of payment for goods and services, an aspect of trade
• Waterproofing the seams of a wooden ship
• Puffy AmiYumi a Japanese pop/rock band

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