pai

From Latin pater, patrem.

pai m

1. father

• IPA^(key): /pai/

pai

1. yam
2. year

• Big Nambas Grammar Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox

English pie

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑi̯/, [ˈpɑi̯]
• Rhymes: -ɑi
• Syllabification^(key): pai

pai

1. (Finglish) pie

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pay, from padre, from Latin pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaj/

pai m (plural pais)

1. father

   Coida meu pai que me ten / debaixo do pé dereito: / Fanlle a cama no sobrado: / non sabe cando me deito. (folk song)

   My dad thinks that he keeps me under his right foot; but he sleeps up in the upper floor and doesn't know when I go to bed.

2. (in the plural) parents

• paiciño (hypocoristic)

• madre
• mai
• nai
• padre
• Pai

• “pai” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pai” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pai” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Portuguese pai. Cognate with Kabuverdianu pai.

pai

1. father

From Portuguese pai (“father”), from Old Portuguese padre (“father”), from Latin patrem (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

pai (plural pai pai)

1. father (male parent)
   • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:

     Já fallou par su pai aquêl mais piquin, […]

     The youngest one told his father […]

From Malay pai from English pie.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpai̯]

pai (first-person possessive paiku, second-person possessive paimu, third-person possessive painya)

1. pie (type of pastry)

• “pai” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

pai

1. Rōmaji transcription of パイ

From Proto-Chamic *tarapay (cognate with Western Cham ꨓꨚꩈ, Malay tapai).[1]

pai (classifier drơi)

1. rabbit

From Portuguese pai.

pai

1. father

pai

1. father

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pai m

1. father

• AEDLL

From English pie.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai̯

pai (Jawi spelling ڤاي‎, plural pai-pai, informal 1st possessive paiku, 2nd possessive paimu, 3rd possessive painya)

1. pie (type of pastry)

• “pai” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

pai

1. Nonstandard spelling of pāi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of pái.
3. Nonstandard spelling of pǎi.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pài.

• 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.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bait (compare Malay baik, Tagalog bait).

pai

1. good

   He iwi hūmārire te Māori, he makoha, he aroha ki te pai.

   The Māori are amiable people, placid and love that which is good.

2. excellent
3. suitable
4. nice

   He maha hoki ngā whare kua kitea e au he whare nunui, he pai a waho ki te titiro atu, ko roto ia he pai ke atu ngā wharepuni.

   And there are many houses that I have seen that are large with nice exteriors to look at, but inside the sleeping houses are even better.

5. pleasant

pai

1. goodness
2. excellence
3. suitability

From Latin pater, patrem.

pai m (plural pais)

1. father

From English pie.

pai m (definite singular paien, indefinite plural paier, definite plural paiene)

1. a pie

• eplepai

• “pai” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English pie.

pai m (definite singular paien, indefinite plural paiar, definite plural paiane)

1. a pie

• eplepai

• “pai” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

pai

1. (Hoanya) woman

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

• pae, pay (obsolete)

From Old Portuguese pay, hypocoristic form of padre, from Latin pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

Compare Galician pai, Mirandese and Leonese pai and Aragonese pai.

• Hyphenation: pai
• Homophone: Pai
• Rhymes: -aj

pai m (plural pais)

1. father (male who sires a child)
2. one's father

   Pai, eu estou saindo com as meninas.

   Dad, I'm going out with the girls.

3. (usually in the plural) parent (either a mother or a father)
4. (figurative) father (the founder of a discipline or science)

   Os gregos foram os pais da civilização.

   The Greeks were the fathers of civilisation.

• (male who sires a child): genitor, papai (familiar, childish), papá (familiar, childish), painho (familiar, childish) progenitor

• (male who sires a child): mãe

• Pai
• pai de família
• pai nosso
• paizão (augmentative)
• paizinho (diminutive)

• padrão
• padre
• padroeiro
• patrão
• pátria
• patrono

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: pai
• Ambonese Malay: pai, paitua
• Indo-Portuguese: pai
• Kabuverdianu: pai
• Kristang: pai
• Sãotomense: pe
  • Annobonese: pe

• “pai” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Back-formation from paie, from Latin palea, considered as a plural. Compare Aromanian palj, paljiu.

pai n (plural paie)

1. straw (a dried stalk of a cereal plant)
2. drinking straw

• păia
• păios
• păiuș

• împăia

• IPA^(key): /paj/

pai

1. Alternative form of pa'

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

From English pay.

pai

1. to pay

pai

1. wage

From English pie.

pai

1. pie

From Proto-Austronesian *pajay. Cognate with Kapampangan pale (“rice plant”); Ilocano pagay (“rice plant”); Malay padi (“rice plant”); Javanese pari (“rice plant”); Tagalog palay (“rice plant”).

pai

1. rice plant

Cognate with Ternate fai (“to dig”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.i/

pai

1. (transitive) to dig

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics
• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as pay)

• parí

• IPA^(key): /k͡pā.í/

paí

1. (Ondo) Alternative form of parí (“to finish; to end”)

   Uun jíjẹ tì paí. ― The food has finished.

• ùpaí (“end”)
• ùpaí ọ̀sẹ̀ (“weekend”)
• a kú ùpaí ọ̀sẹ̀ (“a greeting for the weekend”)

• IPA^(key): /pai̯˧˥/

pái

1. (intransitive) to go

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45