The Tayy were so widespread and influential throughout the Syrian Desert that Syriac authors from Mesopotamia used their name, Taienos, Tayenoi, Taiyaya or Tayyaye (), to describe Arab tribesmen in general in much the same way "Saracenos" was often used by authors from Byzantine Syria and Egypt as a generic term for Arabs.Shahid 1986, p. 126.Abu Izzedin 1993, p. 9.Shahid 1989, p. 117. The Syriac word also entered into the language of the Sasanid Persians as Tāzīg () and later Tāzī (), also meaning "Arab".B.G. Franger (2000), "Tādjīk", Encyclopedia of Islam, vol. X, Leiden: E. J. Brill, , pages 62–64 For the Tayy specifically, the Syriac authors would use the word "Tu'aye".
