rai

See also: RAI, raï, räi, răi, and Rai

English

Etymology 1

Yapese [Term?]

Noun

rai (countable and uncountable, plural rai)

  1. stone money

Etymology 2

Noun

rai (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of raï (“musical style”)

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

  1. raft

Interjection

rai

  1. that's of no importance
  2. tu rai!, don't worry!
  3. això rai!, no problem!

Usage notes

  • It is a particle that it is always put after another word (noun, pronoun, infinitive, etc) to make a complete proposition without verb in form of exclamation indicating that a thing does not matter, is the evidence out of the case treated or that it is presupposed.

Fijian

Noun

rai

  1. sight

Verb

rai

  1. see

French

Etymology

From Old French rai, inherited from Latin radius. Doublet of radius, a borrowing. Unrelated to raie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɛ/

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

  1. ray, beam (of light etc.)
    Synonym: rayon
  2. spoke (of wheel)

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin radius.

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

  1. ray, beam
  2. spoke
  3. radius

Hausa

Noun

râi m (genitive ran, plural rayuka)

  1. life
  2. spirit, mind
  3. hope, salvation
  4. prosperity

Noun

r̃ā'ī̀ m

  1. willingness, interest

Italian

Noun

rai m pl

  1. (poetic) ray
  2. look, eye

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

rai

  1. Rōmaji transcription of らい
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ライ

Malay

Noun

rai

  1. rye

Maori

Noun

rai

  1. rye

Norman

Etymology

From Latin radius (“spoke”).

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

  1. (Jersey, cycling, etc.) spoke

Old French

Etymology

Latin rādius.

Noun

rai m (oblique plural rais, nominative singular rais, nominative plural rai)

  1. beam; ray (of light)
    • late 12th century, anonymous, La Folie de Tristan de Berne, page 314 (of the Champion Classiques edition of Le Roman de Tristan, →ISBN, line 202:
      li rais sor sa face luisoit
      the ray was shining on his face

Romanian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Polish raj.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raj/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

rai n (plural raiuri)

  1. eden
  2. paradise

Declension

See also

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) retg
  • (Surmiran) rètg
  • (Puter) raig

Etymology

From Latin rēx, rēgem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

Noun

rai m (plural rais)

  1. (Vallader) king

Spanish

Etymology

From English ride.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rai/, [raj]

Noun

rai m (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial, El Salvador) ride
    dar rai
    No te preocupés: mi amiga me va a dar rai. - Don't worry: my friend's gonna give me a ride.

Synonyms

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic رَأْي‎ (raʾy).

Noun

rai (n class, plural rai)

  1. opinion, view

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian рай (raj).

Noun

rai

  1. paradise, heaven

Inflection

Inflection of rai
nominative sing. rai
genitive sing. rajun
partitive sing. rajud
partitive plur. —
singular plural
nominative rai —
accusative rajun —
genitive rajun —
partitive rajud —
essive-instructive rajun —
translative rajuks —
inessive rajus —
elative rajuspäi —
illative ? —
adessive rajul —
ablative rajulpäi —
allative rajule —
abessive rajuta —
comitative rajunke —
prolative rajudme —
approximative I rajunno —
approximative II rajunnoks —
egressive rajunnopäi —
terminative I ? —
terminative II rajulesai —
terminative III rajussai —
additive I ? —
additive II rajulepäi —

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “рай”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rai̯/

Determiner

rai

  1. Soft mutation of rhai.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
rhai rai unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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