cai

cai

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

• care, cari

From Latin quālis, quālem. Compare Romanian care.

cai

1. which

cai

1. which, that, who

cai f (plural cais)

1. street

   Les cais er puebru entavía falta-yes asfaltu.

   The village streets still need asphalt.

cai m (plural cais)

1. quay, port

cai

1. you (basa madia)

   Abaang cai nasi! ― Hey you, bring some rice!

   Dija bakatang cai pulpéné ené? ― Where did you get this pen?

• ci (basa madia)

• ragane (basa kasar)
• i ratu / iratu (basa alus)

From Old French kay, from Gaulish *kagyum, cagiíun (“enclosure”), from Proto-Celtic *kagyom (“pen, enclosure”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkai̯]

cai m (plural cais)

1. quay, pier, wharf, breakwater

   Synonym: peirao

• “cai” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cai” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

cai

1. a dead person

• Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 11

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cai m

1. street, road

• AEDLL

cai

1. Romanization of ᠴᠠᡳ

cai

1. Nonstandard spelling of cāi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of cái.
3. Nonstandard spelling of cǎi.
4. Nonstandard spelling of cài.

• 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.

Likely from Persian چای‎ (čāy); see Swahili chai for more.

cai class 9 (plural cai class 10)

1. tea

• “cai” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkai/

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cai m (plural cais)

1. (nautical) dock, quay

• Hyphenation: cai
• Rhymes: -aj

cai

1. inflection of cair:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /kaj/

cai m pl

1. plural of cal

cai

1. Romanization of ᮎᮄ

cai

1. plural of cao

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

Sino-Vietnamese word from 該.

cai

1. (military, historical) corporal
2. overseer; foreman; supervisor
3. (dialectal) Short for cai tổng (“district chief”).

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 戒 (SV: giới).

cai

1. to break (a habit); to grow out of (a habit); to give up