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. The Syriac word was also entered into the language of the Sasanid Persians as "Tāzīg" () and later "Tāzī" (), also meaning "Arab". For the Tayy specifically, the Syriac authors would use the word "Tu'aye".