bai

bai

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Bamileke languages.

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bai (plural bais)

1. A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
   • 2012, David Quammen, Spillover, →ISBN, page 64:

     Gorillas (and other wildlife) frequent such bais, which are waterlogged and sunny, because of the sodium-rich sedges and asters that grow beneath the open sky.

1. A people of the Yunnan province of China.[1]

bai

1. (Internet slang) Eye dialect spelling of bye.

• ABI, AIB, Abi, B.I.A., BIA, Bia, IAB, IBA, Iba

• IPA^(key): /bai̯/, [bai̯]

bai

1. yes

• IPA^(key): /bai̯/

bai

1. house

From Latin badius, possibly via Spanish bayo.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbaj/

bai (feminine baia, masculine plural bais, feminine plural baies)

1. bay (colour)

• “bai” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old French [Term?], from Latin badius.

• IPA^(key): /bɛ/

bai (feminine baie, masculine plural bais, feminine plural baies)

1. bay (of a reddish-brown colour)

• chat bai

• “bai”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

bai

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌹

• IPA^(key): /baiʔ/
• Rhymes: -bai
• Hyphenation: bai

bai

1. to bring

bai

1. masculine plural of baio

bai

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばい
2. Rōmaji transcription of バイ

• bá (Barlavento)

From Portuguese vai (the third-person singular of ir (to go).

bai

1. (Sotavento)to go

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

bai (bai⁵ / bai⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄅㄞ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㗑.

bai

1. Nonstandard spelling of bāi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of bái.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bǎi.
4. Nonstandard spelling of bài.

• 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.

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bai m (genitive singular bai, plural baiaghyn)

1. slope, bias
2. partiality

• baiagh
• neuvaiaght

From Pre-Palauan *baye, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.

bai

1. house (abode)

From Proto-Philippine *bahi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.

bai

1. grandmother

   Coordinate term: laki

From Portuguese vai (the third-person singular of ir (to go) and Spanish vaya and Kabuverdianu bai.

bai

1. to go
2. to walk

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.i/
• Rhymes: -ai
• Syllabification: ba‧i

bai f

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of baja

From Proto-Polynesian *wai, from Proto-Oceanic *waiʀ, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

bai

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

• IPA^(key): /ba͡i/

bai

1. along.
2. through.

From Hungarian baj, from Serbo-Croatian boj (“battle”), from Proto-Slavic *bojь.

bai n (plural baiuri)

1. (Transylvania) trouble

bai

1. grandmother

bai

1. woman

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: bai
• ABVD: wai

From English buy.

• IPA^(key): /bai̯/

bai

1. to buy

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.i]

bai

1. (transitive) to show

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.i]

bai

1. a species of snapper, Etelis carbunculus and/or Etelis radiosus

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

• baimbai (archaic)

From English by and by.

bai

1. Marks future tense
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:26:

     Bihain God i tok olsem, “Nau yumi wokim ol manmeri bai ol i kamap olsem yumi yet. Bai yumi putim ol i stap bos bilong ol pis na ol pisin na bilong olgeta kain animal na bilong olgeta samting bilong graun.”

     Then God said, "Now let us make people who will become like us. We'll put them in charge of the fish and the birds, of all kinds of animals and of all things on the ground."

Tok Pisin tense markers:

• pinis (past perfect tense)
• bin (simple past tense)
• stap (progressive tense)
• bai/baimbai (future tense)

bai

1. according

• baiot

• IPA^(key): /bai̯/

bai m (plural beiau)

1. blame

   Arnat ti roedd y bai.

   You were to blame.

   (literally, “The blame was upon you.”)

• ar fai (“to blame”)

bai

1. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of bod

   Synonyms: basai, byddai, tasai, tai