mai

See also: Variations of "mai"

mai - Translingual

Symbol

mai

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Maithili.

mai - English

Determiner

mai

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

Anagrams

mai - Ajië

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [mai]

Adjective

mai

  1. far

mai - Aragonese

Noun

mai f

  1. mother

mai - Aromanian

Alternative forms

Noun

mai

  1. May (month)

mai - Atong (India)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /maj/

Noun

mai (Bengali script মায় or মাই)

  1. rice

Alternative forms

Noun

mai (Bengali script মায় or মাই)

  1. May

Synonyms

mai - Bamwe

Noun

mai

  1. water

mai - Bangi

Noun

mai

  1. water

mai - Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

mai

  1. never
    • Antonym: sempre
    • No ho sabrem mai.We'll never know.
  2. ever
    • Synonym: alguna vegada
    • Hi has vingut mai, a la festa major?Have you ever been to the major festival?

Derived terms

mai - Chuukese

Noun

mai

  1. breadfruit

mai - Dharug

Noun

mai

  1. eye

mai - Estonian

Noun

mai (genitive mai, partitive maid)

  1. May

Declension

singular plural
nominative mai maid
accusative mai maid
genitive mai maide
partitive maid maisid
illative maisse maidesse
inessive mais maides
elative maist maidest
allative maile maidele
adessive mail maidel
ablative mailt maidelt
translative maiks maideks
terminative maini maideni
essive maina maidena
abessive maita maideta
comitative maiga maidega

Synonyms

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

mai - Faroese

Noun

mai m

  1. May (month of the Gregorian calendar)

mai - Fijian

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

mai - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɛ/, /me/

Noun

mai m (plural mais)

  1. May (month)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Guianese Creole:
  • Haitian Creole: me
  • English: may
  • Iranian Persian: مه (me)

Anagrams

mai - Friulian

Adverb

mai

  1. never

mai - Galician

Noun

mai f (plural mais)

  1. Alternative form of nai

mai - Gallo

Pronoun

mai

  1. me

mai - Garo

Pronoun

mai

  1. what

mai - Guinea-Bissau Creole

Noun

mai

  1. mother

mai - Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mâi/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [mâi]

Noun

mâi m (possessed form mâin)

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

Derived terms

mai - Hawaiian

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.

mai - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈmɒji]
  • Hyphenation: mai

Adjective

mai (not comparable)

  1. of today, today's
    • a mai újságtoday’s newspaper
    • Antonyms: régi, antik

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)

Anagrams

mai - Iban

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /maiʔ/
  • Hyphenation: mai

Verb

mai

  1. to bring

mai - Ingrian

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈmɑi̯/, [ˈmɑi̯]
  • (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈmɑi̯/, [ˈmɑi̯]

Noun

mai

  1. May

Declension

Declension of mai (type 8/maa, no gradation)
nominative mai mait
genitive main maijen
partitive maita maita
illative maihe maihe

mai - Istriot

Adverb

mai

  1. never (not ever)

mai - Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmaj/
  • Hyphenation: mài

Adverb

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?

Anagrams

mai - Japanese

Romanization

mai

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

mai - Kabuverdianu

Noun

mai

  1. mother

mai - Kaurna

Noun

mai

  1. vegetable food, bush tucker

mai - Kedah Malay

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /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.

mai - Khumi Chin

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mai̯˥/

Noun

mai

  1. fire
  2. flame

Derived terms

mai - Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mai/

Noun

mai class 6

  1. shit, stool

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • mbũri ya mai ndĩremaga

mai - Kokborok

Noun

mai

  1. rice
  2. paddy

mai - Leonese

Noun

mai f

  1. mother

mai - Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Kedah) IPA: [ˈmai̯]

Verb

mai (Jawi spelling ماي)

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

mai - Mandarin

Romanization

mai

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

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

mai - Maori

Adverb

mai

  1. hither

mai - Mbandja

Noun

mai

  1. water

mai - Murui Huitoto

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [mai̯]

Adverb

mai

  1. Used to form hortatives of verbs; let's
    • Mai jaai!Let's go!

mai - Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

mai (indeclinable)

  1. May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)

mai - Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mai (indeclinable)

  1. May (fifth month)

mai - Occitan

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mai/

Adverb

mai

  1. (Provençal, Vivaro-Alpine, Languedoc) but
  2. (Provençal, Vivaro-Alpine, Languedoc, Auvergne, Limousin) more

Derived terms


Noun

mai m (plural mais)

  1. May (month)

mai - Pitjantjatjara

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mai̯/, [mɛɪ]

Noun

mai

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

mai - Rapa Nui

Preposition

mai

  1. from, since

mai - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmaj/

Noun

mai m (uncountable)

  1. May

Synonyms


Adverb

mai

  1. more

Usage notes

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

  • mai ușoreasier (literally, “more easy”)
  • mai fericithappier (literally, “more happy”)
  • mai multă fericiremore happiness
  • mai mulți băiețimore boys

Noun

mai n (plural maiuri)

  1. mallet, maul, sledgehammer, rammer, club

Declension

singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mai maiul (niște) maiuri maiurile
genitive/dative (unui) mai maiului (unor) maiuri maiurilor
vocative maiule maiurilor

Derived terms


Noun

mai n (plural maiuri)

  1. (dialectal) liver

Declension

singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mai maiul (niște) maiuri maiurile
genitive/dative (unui) mai maiului (unor) maiuri maiurilor
vocative maiule maiurilor

Synonyms

mai - Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Proper noun

mai m

  1. (Vallader) May

mai - Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈma.i]

Adverb

mai

  1. even
    • botoboto mai ioho, lado mai iohothey even ate grasshoppers, they even ate eels
    • ngofa-ngofa amoi ua mai kadonot even one child came
    • ngori pipi cabu mai uaI have no money at all (literally, “my money, even a little is not”)

mai - Tetum

Verb

mai

  1. to come

mai - Tocharian B

Particle

mai

  1. perchance

mai - Tokelauan

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈma.i/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧i

Preposition

mai

  1. from

Particle

mai

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

Antonyms

mai - Uneapa

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mai/

Verb

mai

  1. to come

mai - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

mai • (, 𣈕, 𪰹)

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

Noun

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) mai (, )

  1. Ochna integerrima, a tree species (sometimes shrub) of the family Ochnaceae, sometimes called apricot in English

Noun

(classifier cái) mai (𨨦)

  1. (of crabs, turtles and tortoises) shell

Noun

(classifier cái) mai ()

  1. a kind of shovel

Noun

mai • ()

  1. (Southern Vietnam) matchmaker

mai - Votic

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA: /ˈmɑi̯/, [ˈmɑi̯]
  • Hyphenation: mai

Noun

mai

  1. May

Inflection

Declension of mai (type I/maa, no gradation)
nominative mai maid
genitive mai maije, maijõ
partitive maitõ maitõ
illative maihi, maihisõ maije, maijõ, maisõ

mai - Welsh

Pronunciation

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

Conjunction

mai

  1. (formal and North Wales colloquial) that (introduces a noun clause, marking it for emphasis)
    • Mae’n dweud mai athro yw ef. (formal)
      • He says that he is a teacher.
    • Mae o’n deud mai athro ’dy o. (North Wales, colloquial)
      • He says that he is a teacher.

Synonyms

  • (South Wales, colloquial) taw

mai - West Makian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈma.i/

Noun

mai

  1. stone

mai - Yola

Verb

mai

  1. Alternative form of mye

mai - Zou

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mai̯˧/

Noun

mai

  1. face

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mai̯˧/

Noun

mai

  1. pumpkin
Meaning and Definition of mai
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