pai

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem.

Noun

pai m

1. father

Bakumpai

Noun

pai

1. foot, leg

Big Nambas

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pai/

Noun

pai

1. yam
2. year

References

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

Finnish

Etymology

English pie

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pai

1. (Finglish) pie

Declension

Further reading

• “pai”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaj/

Noun

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

Derived terms

• paiciño (hypocoristic)

Related terms

• madre
• mai
• nai
• padre
• Pai

References

• “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.

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese pai. Cognate with Kabuverdianu pai.

Noun

pai

1. father

Indo-Portuguese

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay pai from English pie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

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

1. pie (type of pastry)

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Japanese

Romanization

pai

1. Rōmaji transcription of パイ

Jarai

Etymology

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

Noun

pai (classifier drơi)

1. rabbit

References

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese pai.

Noun

pai

1. father

Kristang

Noun

pai

1. father

Leonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pai m

1. father

References

• AEDLL

Malay

Etymology

From English pie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ai̯

Noun

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

1. pie (type of pastry)

Further reading

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

Mandarin

Romanization

pai

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

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Maori

Etymology

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

Adverb

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

Noun

pai

1. goodness
2. excellence
3. suitability

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem.

Noun

pai m (plural pais)

1. father

Ngaju

Noun

pai

1. foot, leg

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

pai

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From English pie.

Noun

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

1. a pie

Derived terms

• eplepai

References

• “pai” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English pie.

Noun

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

1. a pie

Derived terms

• eplepai

References

• “pai” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Papora

Noun

pai

1. (Hoanya) woman

References

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pae, pay (obsolete)

Etymology

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

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Coordinate terms

• (male who sires a child): mãe

Derived terms

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

Related terms

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

Descendants

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

pai n (plural paie)

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

Declension

Derived terms

• păia
• păios
• păiuș

Related terms

• împăia

Samoan

Etymology

From English pie.

Noun

pai

1. pie

Sassarese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paj/

Preposition

pai

1. Alternative form of pa'

References

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

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English pay.

Verb

pai

1. to pay

Noun

pai

1. wage

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English pie.

Noun

pai

1. pie

Tsou

Etymology

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”).

Noun

pai

1. rice plant

West Makian

Etymology

Cognate with Ternate fai (“to dig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.i/

Verb

pai

1. (transitive) to dig

Conjugation

References

• 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)

Yoruba

Alternative forms

• parí

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k͡pā.í/

Verb

paí

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

   Uun jíjẹ tì paí. ― The food has finished.

Derived terms

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

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pai̯˧˥/

Verb

pái

1. (intransitive) to go

References

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