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English
Noun
padi (countable and uncountable, plural padis)
- Alternative form of paddy (“type of rice”)
- Alternative form of paddy (“flooded field for growing rice”)
Albanian
Etymology
Back-formation from padit (“to accuse, sue”).
Noun
padi f (plural padi, definite padia)
- lawsuit
Derived terms
Further reading
- “padi”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- “padi”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
Bikol Central
Noun
padì
- priest
Noun
padí (feminine madi)
- male sponsor at a wedding or baptism
Cuyunon
Noun
padi
- priest
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *patja, from Proto-Germanic *badją. Related to Finnish patja.
Noun
padi (genitive padja, partitive patja)
- pillow, cushion
Ma magan viie padjaga.- I sleep with five pillows.
- (colloquial, slang) a portion or packet of snus
Sul patja on anda?- Do you have any portions of snus to give?
Declension
Iban
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *padi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.
Pronunciation
Noun
padi
- rice (plants)
Ilocano
Etymology
From Spanish padre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpadi/,
- Hyphenation: pa‧di
Noun
padi (plural papadi)
- (religion) priest; father
Indonesian
Etymology
Inherited from Malay padi, from Proto-Malayic *padi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.
Pronunciation
Noun
padi (plural padi-padi, first-person possessive padiku, second-person possessive padimu, third-person possessive padinya)
- rice (plants)
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpa.di/
- Rhymes: -adi
- Hyphenation: pà‧di
Noun
padi m pl
- plural of pado
Krio
Etymology
From English paddy (“labourer's assistant or workmate”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pàdí
- friend
- Synonym: frɛn
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Gaulish.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
padī m pl (genitive padōrum); second declension
- pitch pines
Declension
Second-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “padi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- padi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *padi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.
Pronunciation
Noun
padi (Jawi spelling ڤادي, plural padi-padi, informal 1st possessive padiku, 2nd possessive padimu, 3rd possessive padinya)
- rice (plants)
Adjective
padi
- tiny (of a diminutive sense, used in certain nouns)
- Antonym: gajah
- 2. a type of plant
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
References
- Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “ڤادي padi”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 49
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “ڤادي padi”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 445
- Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “padi”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 192-3
Further reading
Slovene
Verb
pádi
- second-person singular imperative of pásti (“to fall”)