baai

• IPA^(key): /bɑːi̯/

From Dutch baai, from Middle French baie.

baai (plural baaie, diminutive baaitjie)

1. bay

From Dutch baden, from Middle Dutch bāden, from Old Dutch bathon, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną.

baai (present baai, present participle baaiende, past participle gebaai)

1. (also figuratively) to bathe

Borrowed from English bye.

baai

1. bye

• IPA^(key): /baːi̯/

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• Hyphenation: baai
• Rhymes: -aːi̯

Directly or ultimately from Middle French baie. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

baai f (plural baaien, diminutive baaitje n)

1. (geography) bay

• inham

• Afrikaans: baai

Borrowed from Middle French baie.

baai f or m (plural baaien)

1. baize

• baaien

• Afrikaans: baai

baai f or m (uncountable)

1. (Bargoens, slang, dated) wine (in recent texts only used of red wine, and in earlier texts also of wines from the German Rhineland)
   • 1870, P. J. van der Noordaa, "Levenslust", in D. F. Tersteeg, Nederland, vol. 1, J. C. Loman (publ.), page 348.

     »Ja, een half fleschjen rooie baai van een krachtig merk.”

baai

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばあい