mai

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mai"

English

Determiner

mai

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

Anagrams

Ajië

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mai]

Adjective

mai

  1. far

References

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

Bamwe

Noun

mai

  1. water

Bangi

Noun

mai

  1. water

Further reading

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin magis.

Pronunciation

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

Borrowed 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/
  • Audio (France, Paris)(file)

Noun

mai m (plural mais)

  1. May (month)

Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Noun

mai f (plural mais)

  1. Alternative form of nai

Hausa

Noun

mâi m (possessed form mâin)

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

Derived terms

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]
  • Audio(file)
  • 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. Obsolete spelling of may

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

  • Audio(file)

Adverb

mai

  1. never
  2. ever, always

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

mai

  1. Rōmaji transcription of まい
  2. Rōmaji transcription 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.

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[1].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mai/

Noun

mai class 6

  1. shit, stool[2]

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • mbũri ya mai ndĩremaga

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 20–21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ↑ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 11, 34.

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

Borrowed from Latin Maius, after Maia

Noun

mai (indeclinable)

  1. May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Maius, after Maia

Noun

mai (indeclinable)

  1. May (fifth month)

References

Occitan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan mai, from Latin magis.

Adverb

mai

  1. but
  2. more
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin (mensis) Māius.

Noun

mai m (plural mais)

  1. May (month)

Pitjantjatjara

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mai̯/, [mɛɪ]

Noun

mai

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

Rapa Nui

Preposition

mai

  1. from, since

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • audio(file)

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

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
  • măior

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Hungarian máj.

Noun

mai n (plural maiuri)

  1. (dialectal) liver
Declension
Synonyms

See also

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

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adverb

mai (𣈕, 𪰹)

  1. tomorrow
    Synonym: ngày mai
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

(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.

Etymology 3

Noun

(classifier cái) mai (𨨦)

  1. (of crabs, turtles and tortoises) shell

Etymology 4

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

Noun

mai

  1. (Southern Vietnam) matchmaker

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

See also

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