madi

madí (masculine padi)

1. female sponsor at a wedding or baptism

From French mardi (“Tuesday”).

madi

1. Tuesday

• (days of the week) jou nan semèn nan; lendi, madi, mèkredi, jedi, vandredi, samdi, dimanch ^{(Category: ht:Days of the week)}

From Arabic مَادِّيّ‎ (māddiyy).

madi

1. material

From Medieval Byzantine Greek μάτιν (mátin) which is in turn from the Ancient Greek ὀμμάτιον (ommátion), diminutive of ὄμμα (ómma, “eye”). Cognate with Greek μάτι (máti).

madi n (Greek spelling μάτι, plural madia)

1. eye

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From Proto-Bantu *màjíjɪ̀.

mâdi

1. water

• (De'kwana) maadi

• IPA^(key): [maɾ̠i]

madi

1. (Ye'kwana dialect) the capped heron, Pilherodius pileatus

• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “madi”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela] (in Maquiritari and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 122
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “ma:di”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007), “tadāya”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 36

From Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.

madi

1. blood

• → Phuthi: emalî

From Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.

madi class 6

1. blood

Seemingly a wanderwort ultimately from Swahili mali; compare Shona mari, Zulu imali. However, polysemy between "blood" and "money" is common among Khoisan languages, and also found in Bantu in the Kalahari region: Yeyi maropa (“blood, money”), Mbukushu manyinga (“blood, money”).

madi class 6

1. money