baai
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Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Dutch baai, from Middle French baie.
Noun
baai (plural baaie, diminutive baaitjie)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Dutch baaien, dialectal form of baden, from Middle Dutch bāden, from Old Dutch bathon, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną.
Verb
baai (present baai, present participle baaiende, past participle gebaai)
- (also figurative) to bathe
Related terms
Etymology 3
Interjection
baai
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Directly or ultimately from Middle French baie. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
baai f (plural baaien, diminutive baaitje n)
Hypernyms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Middle French baie.
Noun
baai f or m (plural baaien)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: baai
Etymology 3
Noun
baai f or m (uncountable)
- (Bargoens, slang, dated) wine (in recent texts only used of red wine, and in earlier texts also of wines from the German Rhineland)
- 1870, P. J. van der Noordaa, "Levenslust", in D. F. Tersteeg, Nederland, vol. 1, J. C. Loman (publ.), page 348.
- »Ja, een half fleschjen rooie baai van een krachtig merk.”
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- 1870, P. J. van der Noordaa, "Levenslust", in D. F. Tersteeg, Nederland, vol. 1, J. C. Loman (publ.), page 348.
Japanese
Romanization
baai