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Mai

Mai

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mai"

English

Proper noun

Mai

  1. A female given name, a rare spelling variant of Mae/May, or borrowed from Scandinavia, with the same ultimate origin.
  2. A surname​ of Chinese or German origin.

Anagrams

Danish

Proper noun

Mai

  1. A female given name, variant of Maj.

Estonian

Etymology

Short form of Maia, from Maarja / Maria; also associated with the month mai ‎(“May”).

Proper noun

Mai

  1. A female given name.

Ewe

Proper noun

Mai

  1. May (month)

Related terms

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin māius.

Noun

Mai

  1. May

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ̯

Noun

Mai m ‎(genitive Mais or Mai, plural Maie)

  1. May (month)

Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

Mai

  1. rōmaji reading of まい

Norwegian

Proper noun

Mai

  1. A female given name, short for Maja, Maria, or from the month.

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 梅, from Middle Chinese 梅 ‎(mwoj)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mai

  1. A surname​.
  2. A female given name

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin Māius.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mai̯/

Proper noun

Mai m

  1. May

See also

mai

mai

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mai"

English

Determiner

mai

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

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin mater, matrem.

Noun

mai f

  1. mother

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

mai

  1. May (month)

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maj/

Noun

mai

  1. rice

Bangi

Noun

mai

  1. water

References

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin mai, from Latin magis.

Adverb

mai

  1. never

Antonyms

See also

Chuukese

Noun

mai

  1. breadfruit

Dharug

Noun

mai

  1. eye

Estonian

Etymology

From German Mai.

Noun

mai ‎(genitive mai, partitive maid)

  1. May

Declension

Synonyms

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

See also

Faroese

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin (mensis) māius.

Noun

mai m

  1. May (month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

Fijian

Etymology

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

Verb

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

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

Preposition

mai

  1. in
  2. from

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛ/

Noun

mai m ‎(plural mais)

  1. May (month)

Related terms

Anagrams

Galician

Noun

mai f ‎(plural mais)

  1. Alternative form of nai

Hausa

Noun

mâi m ‎(genitive man)

  1. oil, fat, grease
  2. gasoline

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *mai

Particle

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.

Usage notes

  • 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")

Synonyms

Antonyms

Preposition

mai

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

Verb

mai

  1. don't Negative imperative followed by a verb
    Mai makaʻu.
    Don't be afraid.

Hungarian

Etymology

ma +‎ -i

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɒʲi]
  • Hyphenation: mai

Adjective

mai (not comparable)

  1. of today, today's
    a mai újság‎ ― today's newspaper

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative mai maiak
accusative mait maiakat
dative mainak maiaknak
instrumental maival maiakkal
causal-final maiért maiakért
translative maivá maiakká
terminative maiig maiakig
essive-formal maiként maiakként
essive-modal — —
inessive maiban maiakban
superessive main maiakon
adessive mainál maiaknál
illative maiba maiakba
sublative maira maiakra
allative maihoz maiakhoz
elative maiból maiakból
delative mairól maiakról
ablative maitól maiaktól

Antonyms

Interlingue

Noun

mai

  1. May, the fifth month of the Gregorian calendar.

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin magis.

Adverb

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,

Italian

Etymology

From Latin magis.

Pronunciation

Adverb

mai

  1. never
  2. ever, always

Related terms

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

mai

  1. rōmaji reading of まい
  2. rōmaji reading of マイ

Kaurna

Noun

mai

  1. vegetable food, bush tucker

Kedah Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mai/

Verb

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.

Interjection

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.

Lojban

Rafsi

mai

  1. rafsi of marji.

Mandarin

Romanization

mai

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

Usage notes

  • 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.

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *mai

Adverb

mai

  1. hither

Mbandja

Noun

mai

  1. water

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin Maius, after Maia

Noun

mai ‎(indeclinable)

  1. May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)

References

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin Maius, after Maia

Noun

mai ‎(indeclinable)

  1. May (fifth month)

References

Occitan

Etymology 1

From Old Provençal mai, from Latin magis.

Adverb

mai

  1. but
  2. more
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Latin (mensis) Māius.

Noun

mai m (plural mais)

  1. May (month)

Pitjantjatjara

Noun

mai

  1. food
  2. vegetable

Rapa Nui

Preposition

mai

  1. from, since

Romanian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mai m ‎(uncountable)

  1. May
Synonyms

See also

Etymology 2

From Latin magis.

Adverb

mai

  1. more
Usage notes

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

Etymology 3

From Latin malleus ‎(“hammer”).

Noun

mai n ‎(plural maiuri)

  1. mallet, maul, sledgehammer, rammer, club
Declension
Related terms
  • măior

Etymology 4

Borrowing from Hungarian máj.

Noun

mai n ‎(plural maiuri)

  1. (dialectal, anatomy) liver
Synonyms

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin (mensis) Māius ‎(“of May”).

Proper noun

mai m

  1. (Vallader) May

Welsh

Conjunction

mai

  1. that (introduces a noun clause, marking it for emphasis)
    Mae e’n dweud mai athro yw ef.‎
    He says that he is a teacher.
    Roedden ni arfer credu mai gŵr drwg oedd ef.‎
    We used to think that he was a bad man.

Synonyms

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