mai

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English

Determiner

mai

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

Anagrams

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

Ajië

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mai]

Adjective

mai

References

Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin mater, matrem.

Noun

mai f

mother

Aromanian

Alternative forms

maiu

Etymology

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

Noun

mai

May (month)

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /maj/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *mai¹ (“rice; paddy; cooked rice”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma-j ~ mej (“rice; paddy”).

Noun

mai (Bengali script মায় or মাই)

rice

Etymology 2

From English May.

Alternative forms

Noun

mai (Bengali script মায় or মাই)

Synonyms

jetja

References

van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Bamwe

Noun

mai

water

Bangi

Noun

mai

water

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin magis.

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

mai

never
Antonym: sempre
ever
Synonym: alguna vegada

Derived terms

més val tard que no mai

Chuukese

Noun

mai

breadfruit

Dharug

Noun

mai

Estonian

Etymology

From German Mai.

Noun

mai (genitive mai, partitive maid)

Declension

Synonyms

lehekuu
lehehakkamiskuu
õiekuu
toomekuu
meiukuu
nelipühakuu

Faroese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin (mensis) māius.

Noun

mai m

May (month of the Gregorian calendar)

Fijian

Etymology

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

Verb

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

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

Preposition

mai

in
from

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛ/, /me/

Noun

mai m (plural mais)

May (month)

Derived terms

arbre de mai

Related terms

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

Descendants

Guianese Creole: mè
Haitian Creole: me
→ English: may
→ Persian: مه‎ (me)

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin magis.

Adverb

mai

never

Galician

Noun

mai f (plural mais)

Alternative form of nai

Garo

Pronoun

mai

what

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese mãe. Cognate with Kabuverdianu mai.

Noun

mai

mother

Hausa

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mâi/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [mâi]

Noun

mâi m (possessed form mâin)

oil, fat, grease
gasoline, petrol

Derived terms

man shanu

Hawaiian

Etymology

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

Particle

mai

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

maila

Antonyms

aku, akula

Preposition

mai

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

Verb

mai

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

Hungarian

Etymology

ma +‎ -i

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmɒji]
Hyphenation: mai
Rhymes: -ji

Adjective

mai (not comparable)

of today, today's

Antonyms: régi, antik

Declension

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin magis.

Adverb

mai

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

IPA^(key): /ˈmaj/
Rhymes: -aj
Hyphenation: mài

Adverb

mai

never
ever, always
Used as an intensifier.

Related terms

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

Anagrams

ami, ima, mia

Japanese

Romanization

mai

Rōmaji transcription of まい
Rōmaji transcription of マイ

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese mãe.

Noun

mai

mother

Kaurna

Noun

mai

vegetable food, bush tucker

Kedah Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mai/

Verb

mai

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

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

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.

Khumi Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *may, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej. Cognates include Tibetan མེ (me) and S'gaw Karen မ့ၣ် (maỳ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mai̯˥/

Noun

mai

fire
flame

Derived terms

References

R. Shafer (1944), “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, issue 2, page 423
K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[1], Payap University, page 44

Kikuyu

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mai/

Noun

mai 6

shit, stool

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

mbũri ya mai ndĩremaga

References

Kokborok

Etymology

From From Proto-Bodo-Garo *mai¹ (“rice; paddy; cooked rice”), from, Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma-j ~ mej (“rice; paddy”). Cognate with Garo mi, Atong (India) mai.

Noun

mai

rice
paddy

References

Debbarma, Binoy (2001), “mai”, in Concise Kokborok-English-Bengali Dictionary, Language Wing, Education Department, TTAADC, →ISBN, page 78

Leonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mai f

mother

References

AEDLL

Malay

Pronunciation

(Kedah) IPA^(key): [ˈmai̯]

Verb

mai (Jawi spelling ماي‎)

(dialectal) to come (to move from further away to nearer to)

Related terms

mari

References

"mai" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
“mai” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Mandarin

Romanization

mai

Nonstandard spelling of mái.
Nonstandard spelling of mǎi.
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, Proto-Oceanic, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi.

Adverb

mai

hither

Mbandja

Noun

mai

water

References

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

Murui Huitoto

Alternative forms

maì

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mai̯]

Adverb

mai

Used to form hortatives of verbs; let's

References

Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 171
Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 144

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Maius, after Maia

Noun

mai (indeclinable)

May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)

References

“mai” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Maius, after Maia

Noun

mai (indeclinable)

May (fifth month)

References

“mai” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

(Limousin, Auvergne, Languedoc, "but") mas
(Gascony, "more/but") mes
(Gascony, "more") mèi/mei
(Gascony, Auvergne, "but") mès

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mai/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan mai, from Latin magis.

Adverb

mai

(Provençal, Vivaro-Alpine, Languedoc) but
(Provençal, Vivaro-Alpine, Languedoc, Auvergne, Limousin) more
Synonym: pus

Derived terms

a mai
mai o mens

Etymology 2

From Latin (mensis) Māius.

Noun

mai m (plural mais)

May (month)

Pitjantjatjara

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mai̯/, [mɛɪ]

Noun

mai

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

Rapa Nui

Etymology

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

Preposition

mai

from, since

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmaj/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mai m (uncountable)

Synonyms

florar (popular/folk name)

Etymology 2

From Latin magis.

Adverb

mai

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)

mallet, maul, sledgehammer, rammer, club

Declension

Derived terms

măior

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Hungarian máj.

Noun

mai n (plural maiuri)

(dialectal) liver

Declension

Synonyms

ficat

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin (mensis) Māius (“of May”).

Proper noun

mai m

(Vallader) May

Ternate

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈma.i]

Adverb

mai

even

References

Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tetum

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi, compare Malay mari.

Verb

mai

to come

Tocharian B

Particle

mai

perchance

Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *mai. Cognates include Hawaiian mai and Samoan mai.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈma.i/
Hyphenation: ma‧i

Preposition

mai

from

Particle

mai

Indicates the motion of the action of the preceding verb towards the speaker; towards, to

References

R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary‎^[5], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 199

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mai • (𣈕, 𪰹)

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) mai

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.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

(classifier cái) mai • (𨨦)

(of crabs, turtles and tortoises) shell

Etymology 4

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

Noun

mai

(Southern Vietnam) matchmaker

Welsh

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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

Conjunction

mai

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

(North Wales, colloquial)

Synonyms

(South Wales, colloquial) taw

Zou

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mai̯˧/

Noun

mai

face

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mai̯˧/

Noun

mai

pumpkin

References

Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45

mai

mai

English

Determiner

Anagrams

Ajië

Pronunciation

Adjective

References

Aragonese

Etymology

Noun

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Noun

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

Synonyms

References

Bamwe

Noun

Bangi

Noun

Further reading

Catalan

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adverb

Derived terms

See also

Chuukese

Noun

Dharug

Noun

Estonian

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Synonyms

See also

Faroese

Etymology

Noun

See also

Fijian

Etymology

Verb

Preposition

French

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Further reading

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

Adverb

Galician

Noun

Garo

Pronoun

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

Noun

Hausa

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Hawaiian

Etymology

Particle