mai

mai

1. (anime, manga, fandom slang, Internet slang) Alternative form of my (used in the expressions mai waifu and mai husbando)

• AIM, AMI, I am, I'm a, I'm a', I'm'a, I'ma, IAM, Ima, Ima', MIA, Mia, aim, i'm'a, i'ma, ima, mia

• IPA^(key): [mai]

mai

1. far

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

From Latin mater, matrem.

mai f

1. mother

• maiu

From Latin Māius or Greek Μάιος (Máios). Compare Daco-Romanian mai.

mai

1. May (month)

• IPA^(key): /maj/

mai

1. rice

mai

1. water

mai

1. water

• Comparative Handbook of Congo Languages (1903), page 176

From Latin magis.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaj/

mai

1. never

• sempre

• jamai

mai

1. breadfruit

mai

1. eye

From German Mai.

mai (genitive mai, partitive maid)

1. May

• lehekuu
• lehehakkamiskuu
• õiekuu
• toomekuu
• meiukuu
• nelipühakuu

• (Gregorian calendar months) jaanuar, veebruar, märts, aprill, mai, juuni, juuli, august, september, oktoober, november, detsember ^{(Category: et:Months)}

Borrowed from Latin (mensis) māius.

mai m

1. May (month of the Gregorian calendar)

• (Gregorian calendar months) januar, februar, mars, apríl, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember ^{(Category: fo:Months)}

From Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi.

mai (always together with lako, , as lako mai)

1. (intransitive) to come (to move from further away to nearer to)

mai

1. in
2. from

From Old French mai, from Latin (mensis) Māius.

• IPA^(key): /mɛ/, /me/

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mai m (plural mais)

1. May (month)

• (Gregorian calendar months) mois du calendrier grégorien; janvier, février, mars, avril, mai, juin, juillet, août, septembre, octobre, novembre, décembre ^{(Category: fr:Months)}

• “mai” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ami

From Latin magis.

mai

1. never

mai f (plural mais)

1. Alternative form of nai

From Portuguese mãe. Cognates with Kabuverdianu mai.

mai

1. mother

mâi m (possessed form mâin)

1. oil, fat, grease
2. gasoline, petrol

• man shanu

From Proto-Polynesian *mai, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi.

mai

1. hither, this way, towards the speaker

   Mai mai mai!

   Come in, come in!

   E hoʻolohe mai ana lākou i ka moʻolelo.

   They were listening to the story.

• Commonly used after verbs that do not need a directional in English.
• Mai and aku may change the meaning of the verb:

  aʻo mai ("to learn") - aʻo aku ("to teach")

  kūʻai mai ("to buy") - kūʻai aku ("to sell")

• maila

• aku, akula

mai

1. from (used in the sequence mai...mai or mai...aku)

mai

1. don't Negative imperative followed by a verb

   Mai makaʻu.

   Don't be afraid.

ma +‎ -i

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒʲi]

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• Hyphenation: mai

mai (not comparable)

1. of today, today's

   a mai újság ― today's newspaper

• régi
• antik

mai

1. Obsolete spelling of may

From Latin magis.

mai

1. never (not ever)
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:

     Che mai pioûn biela duon i’iê veisto al mondo,

     That I haven’t ever seen a more beautiful woman in the world,

From Latin magis.

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mai

1. never
2. ever, always
3. Used as an intensifier.

   Una risposta quanto mai ambigua.

   An ambiguous answer indeed.

   Dove mai si sarà cacciato?

   Where on earth did he end up?

• casomai/caso mai
• come mai?
• giammai
• mai dire mai (proverb)
• mai e poi mai
• mai più
• meglio tardi che mai (proverb)
• ormai
• ora o mai più
• quasi mai

• ami
• mia

mai

1. Rōmaji transcription of まい
2. Rōmaji transcription of マイ

From Portuguese mãe.

mai

1. mother

mai

1. vegetable food, bush tucker

From Proto-Malayic *mari, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi.

• IPA^(key): /mai/

mai

1. Come, present (at here), attend, be (here)

   Hang nak gebang aku eh, kata nak mai, batang hidung pun tak nampak!

   You said that you're gonna come, but I didn't see you anywhere!

   Depa mai ka dak ni; dah cemuih dah dok tang ni dok melangut ja.

   Have you seen them (present at here), cause I am bored to death here, just doing nothing.

mai

1. Come here! Here!

   Mai la sat, aku seghighau satgi depa tabuh aku pulak.

   Please come with me for a second, I'm afraid that they might hit me.

   "Mai la, hang dok takut pa, aku tak buat pa eh," kata Ali kepada kucingnya.

   "Come! What are you so afraid of? I'm not gonna do anything to you," says Ali to his cat.

Hinde (1904) records mai as an equivalent of English dung (cow's) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba maii and Swahili mavi as its equivalents[1].

• IPA^(key): /mai/

mai class 6

1. shit, stool[2]

(Proverbs)

• mbũri ya mai ndĩremaga

• mathugumo

mai f

1. mother

• AEDLL

mai

1. Nonstandard spelling of mái.
2. Nonstandard spelling of mǎi.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mài.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Proto-Polynesian *mai, Proto-Oceanic, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi.

mai

1. hither

mai

1. water

• William L. Gardner, Language use in the Epena district of Northern Congo, SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2006-005 (2006)

Borrowed from Latin Maius, after Maia

mai (indeclinable)

1. May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)

• (Gregorian calendar months) månad i den gregorianske kalenderen; januar, februar, mars, april, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember ^{(Category: no:Months)}

• “mai” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin Maius, after Maia

mai (indeclinable)

1. May (fifth month)

• “mai” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Occitan mai, from Latin magis.

mai

1. but
2. more

   Synonym: pus

• a mai
• mai o mens

From Latin (mensis) Māius.

mai m (plural mais)

1. May (month)

• IPA^(key): /mai̯/, [mɛɪ]

mai

1. food (especially non-meat food; sometimes used for food in general)
2. plant used for food

From Proto-Polynesian *mai, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi.

mai

1. from, since

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaj/

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From Latin (mensis) Māius, probably through Greek Μάιος (Máios) and partially Proto-Slavic [Term?] *majь. Less likely a direct derivation from Latin.

mai m (uncountable)

1. May

• florar (popular/folk name)

From Latin magis.

mai

1. more

This word regards degree rather than number, for which a form of the word mult should be appended.

• mai ușor - easier (more easy)
• mai fericit - happier (more happy)
• mai multă fericire - more happiness
• mai mulți băieți - more boys

From Latin malleus (“hammer”).

mai n (plural maiuri)

1. mallet, maul, sledgehammer, rammer, club

• măior

Borrowed from Hungarian máj.

mai n (plural maiuri)

1. (dialectal) liver

• ficat

• (Gregorian calendar months) lună a calendarului gregorian; ianuarie, februarie, martie, aprilie, mai, iunie, iulie, august, septembrie, octombrie, noiembrie, decembrie ^{(Category: ro:Months)}

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) matg
• (Puter) meg

From Latin (mensis) Māius (“of May”).

mai m

1. (Vallader) May

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maːj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maːj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [maːj˧˧]

mai (𣈕, 𪰹)

1. early morning
2. (colloquial) Short for ngày mai (“tomorrow”).
3. the hair in front of a person's ears

Sino-Vietnamese word from 梅 (“Chinese plum”).

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) mai

1. Ochna integerrima, a tree species (sometimes shrub) of the family Ochnaceae, sometimes called apricot in English
   • 1999, Lê Trung Vũ and Lê Hồng Lý, Lễ hội Việt Nam, Văn hoá Thông tin, page 357

     Ngày xưa kỳ thi Hội chọn lấy đỗ Tiến sĩ được tổ chức vào mùa xuân, cùng với dịp hoa mai nở.

     In times of old, the ceremony of selecting Imperial Examination laureates was organized in spring, to coincide with the blooming of the apricot trees.

(classifier cái) mai (𨨦)

1. (of crabs, turtles and tortoises) shell

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 媒 (SV: môi).

mai

1. (Southern Vietnam) matchmaker

• (North Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /mai̯/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ma/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /mai̯/

mai

1. (formal) (North Wales, colloquial) that (introduces a noun clause, marking it for emphasis)

   (formal)

   Mae’n dweud mai athro yw ef.

   He says that he is a teacher.

   (North Wales, colloquial)

   Mae o’n deud mai athro 'di o.

   He says that he is a teacher.

• (South Wales, colloquial) taw

• y
• bod
• i