cair

From Middle English cairen, kayren, from Old Norse keyra (“to whip, lash, fling, toss, prick on, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *kaurijaną (“tu turn, sweep”). Cognate with Icelandic keyra (“to run, drive, urge”), Swedish köra (“to drive, go, run”), Danish køre (“to drive”), Norwegian Bokmål kjøre (“to drive”), Norwegian Nynorsk køyra (“to drive”), Old English ċierran (“to turn, change, go, come”). More at char.

cair (third-person singular simple present cairs, present participle cairing, simple past and past participle caired)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To carry.
3. (transitive, dialectal) To toss backwards and forwards; mix up; overhandle; stir about.

cair (plural cairs)

1. Alternative form of caer (“Welsh fortress”)

• ACIR, AICR, Acri, CIRA, CRIA, Cira, Crai, arci, cria

From Malay cair.

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• Hyphenation: ca‧ir

cair

1. liquid: flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.

   Synonym: likuid

2. thin: of low viscosity or low specific gravity.

   Synonym: encer

   Antonym: kental

3. (figurative) fluid: convertible into cash.
4. (figurative) leaked: of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.

   Synonym: bocor

5. (figurative) weak

   Synonym: lemah

• “cair” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃair/
• Rhymes: -ir

cair (Jawi spelling چاءير)

1. liquid: flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
2. thin: of low viscosity or low specific gravity.

   Antonym: kental

3. (figurative) fluid: convertible into cash.
4. (figurative) leaked: of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.

   Synonym: bocor

5. (figurative) weak

   Synonym: lemah

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

From Middle Irish cóir, from Old Irish coaïr, cóir.

cair

1. just, right
2. due

cair f (genitive singular , plural )

1. property
2. rights, privilege

• neuchairagh
• neuchairys

• cahir (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese caer, from Late Latin cadēre, from Latin cadĕre, from Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱad- (“to fall”). Cognate with Galician caer and Spanish caer.

• Homophone: caí (Brazil, only with a dropped -r)
• Hyphenation: ca‧ir

cair (first-person singular present caio, first-person singular preterite caí, past participle caído) (intransitive)

1. to fall; to fall down; to drop

   A maçã caiu. ― The apple fell.

2. to fall (to fall so it is no longer attached to or on top of something)

   O livro caiu da mesa. ― The book fell from the table.

   A maçã caiu do galho. ― The apple fell from the branch.

3. (figurative) to fall; to collapse (to be overthrown, defeated or annulled)

   O novo governo logo cairá. ― The new government will fall soon.

4. to suit (to be appropriate or suitable), to be fitting

   Um vestido preto cairia bem nela. ― A black dress would suit her well.

   Um vinhozinho cai bem. ― Some wine would be nice.

5. to go down (of food) (to be eaten with or without causing indigestion)

   Essa pizza podre me caiu mal. ― This rotten pizza didn’t go down well.

6. to fall, to decrease (to lower in value or quantity)

   Espero que o preço dos livros caia. ― I hope that the price of the books falls.

7. to get disconnected, to be interrupted (of a call or connection)

   Caiu a ligação. ― The connection dropped.

8. (euphemistic) to fall (to die in battle)

   Muitos dos nossos soldados caíram naquela guerra. ― Many of our soldiers fell in that war.

9. to be present (of a subject or question)

   Caiu uma pergunta sobre a revolução. ― There was a question about the revolution.

   Eu não tinha estudado nada do que caiu na prova. ― I hadn’t studied anything that was in the test.

10. to be available (of money)

    Meu salário já caiu na minha conta bancária. ― My salary is already available in my bank account.

• Macanese: cai

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