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mai

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Maithili.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Maithili terms

mai

1. (anime, manga, fandom slang, Internet slang) Alternative form of my (used in the expressions mai waifu and mai husbando)

• I'm a', ima, I'm-a, IAM, I'ma, I'm'a, AIM, i'ma, IMA, I'm a, i'm'a, I am, Ima, AMI, aim, Mia, Ima', mia, MIA

• IPA^(key): [mai]

mai

1. far

• Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From Latin mater, matrem.

mai f

1. mother

• maiu

From Latin Maius or Greek Μάιος (Máios). Compare Romanian mai.

mai

1. May (month)

• IPA^(key): /maj/

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *mai¹ (“rice; paddy; cooked rice”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma-j ~ mej (“rice; paddy”). Cognate with Chinese 米 (mǐ).

mai (Bengali script মায় or মাই)

1. rice

From English May.

• me
• mei

mai (Bengali script মায় or মাই)

1. May

• jetja

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

mai

1. water

mai

1. water

• Comparative Handbook of Congo Languages (1903), page 176

Inherited from Latin magis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmaj]
• Rhymes: -aj

mai

1. never

   Antonym: sempre

   No ho sabrem mai. ― We'll never know.

2. ever

   Synonym: alguna vegada

   Hi has vingut mai, a la festa major? ― Have you ever been to the major festival?

• més val tard que no mai

• jamai

mai

1. breadfruit

mai

1. eye

From German Mai.

mai (genitive mai, partitive maid)

1. May

Declension of mai (ÕS type 26/koi, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	mai	maid
accusative	nom.
gen.	mai
genitive	maide
partitive	maid	maisid
illative	maisse	maidesse
inessive	mais	maides
elative	maist	maidest
allative	maile	maidele
adessive	mail	maidel
ablative	mailt	maidelt
translative	maiks	maideks
terminative	maini	maideni
essive	maina	maidena
abessive	maita	maideta
comitative	maiga	maidega

• lehekuu
• lehehakkamiskuu
• õiekuu
• toomekuu
• meiukuu
• nelipühakuu

Borrowed from Latin (mensis) maius.

mai m

1. May (month of the Gregorian calendar)

From Proto-Central-Pacific *mai, from Proto-Oceanic *maʀi, *mai, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi.

mai (always together with lako, , as lako mai)

1. (intransitive) to come (to move from further away to nearer to)

mai

1. in
2. from

Inherited from Old French mai, from Latin Maius.

• IPA^(key): /mɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Homophones: maie, maies, mais, met, mets (general), mes (ɛ/e-merger)

mai m (plural mais)

1. May (month)

• arbre de mai
• mi-mai

• Guianese Creole: mè
• Haitian Creole: me
• → English: may
• → Iranian Persian: مه (me)
• Louisiana Creole: mê
• → South Azerbaijani: مه (mə)
• → Tunisian Arabic: ماي (mēy)

• “mai”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ami

From Latin magis.

mai

1. never

From Old Galician-Portuguese mãy, influenced by the archaic nana (“mother”),^[1] from Latin mater. Cognate of Portuguese mãe.

mai f (plural mais)

1. Alternative form of nai

mai

1. me

mai

1. what

From Portuguese mãe. Cognate with Kabuverdianu mai.

mai

1. mother

• IPA^(key): /mâi/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [mâi]

mâi m (possessed form mâin)

1. oil, fat, grease
2. gasoline, petrol

• man shanu

From Proto-Polynesian *mai, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi. Compare with Maori mai and Rapa Nui mai.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmai̯/, [ˈmɐj], [ˈmɛj] (rapid speech)

mai

1. hither, this way, towards the speaker

   Mai mai mai!

   Come in, come in!

   E hoʻolohe mai ana lākou i ka moʻolelo.

   They were listening to the story.

• Commonly used after verbs that do not need a directional in English.
• Mai and aku may change the meaning of the verb:

  aʻo mai ("to learn") - aʻo aku ("to teach")

  kūʻai mai ("to buy") - kūʻai aku ("to sell")

• maila

• aku, akula

mai

1. from (used in the sequence mai...mai or mai...aku)

mai

1. don't Negative imperative followed by a verb

   Mai makaʻu.

   Don't be afraid.

ma +‎ -i

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒji]
• Hyphenation: mai
• Rhymes: -ji

mai (not comparable)

1. of today, today's

   Antonyms: régi, antik

   a mai újság ― today’s newspaper

• mai in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• ami, ima

• IPA^(key): /maiʔ/
• Rhymes: -mai
• Hyphenation: mai

mai

1. to bring

Month names

Previous:	apreli
Next:	ijuuni

Borrowed from Russian май (maj).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑi̯/, [ˈmɑi̯]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑi̯/, [ˈmɑi̯]
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯

mai

1. May

   • 1937, N. S. Popova, translated by A. Kolesova, Arifmetiikan oppikirja alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 25:

     Vooes ono 12 kuuta: janvari, fevrali, martti, apreli, mai, ijuuni, ijuuli, avgusta, sentjabri, oktjabri, nojabri i dekabri.

     In a year are 12 months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December.

Declension of mai (type 8/maa, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	mai	mait
genitive	main	maijen
partitive	maita	maita
illative	maihe	maihe
inessive	mais	mais
elative	maist	maist
allative	maille	maille
adessive	mail	mail
ablative	mailt	mailt
translative	maiks	maiks
essive	mainna, main	mainna, main
exessive1)	maint	maint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 291

From Latin magis.

mai

1. never (not ever)

   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:

     Che mai pioûn biela duon i’iê veisto al mondo,

     That I haven’t ever seen a more beautiful woman in the world,

From Latin magis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.i/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ai
• Hyphenation: mà‧i

mai

1. never
2. ever, always
3. used as an intensifier

   Una risposta quanto mai ambigua.

   An ambiguous answer indeed.

   Dove mai si sarà cacciato?

   Where on earth did he end up?

• ami, ima, mia

mai

1. Rōmaji transcription of まい
2. Rōmaji transcription of マイ

From Portuguese mãe.

mai

1. mother

Regional variants of mai

North Karelian (Viena)	—
South Karelian (Tver)	mai

Months of the year

Previous:	aprelʹa
Next:	ijunʹa

Borrowed from Russian май (maj).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑi̯/
• Hyphenation: mai

mai (genitive main, partitive maida)

1. (South Karelian) May

Tver Karelian declension of mai (type 6/pimie, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	mai	mait
genitive	main	main
partitive	maida	maida
illative	maih	maih
inessive	maissa	maissa
elative	maista	maista
adessive	mailla	mailla
ablative	mailda	mailda
translative	maiksi	maiksi
essive	maina	maina
comitative	mainke	mainke
abessive	maitta	maitta

Possessive forms of mai
1st person	maini
2nd person	mais
3rd person	maih
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

• oraškuu

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “mai”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN

mai

1. vegetable food, bush tucker

From Proto-Malayic *mari, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi.

• IPA^(key): /mai/

mai

1. Come, present (at here), attend, be (here)

   Hang nak gebang aku eh, kata nak mai, batang hidung pun tak nampak!

   You said that you're gonna come, but I didn't see you anywhere!

   Depa mai ka dak ni; dah cemuih dah dok tang ni dok melangut ja.

   Have you seen them (present at here), cause I am bored to death here, just doing nothing.

mai

1. Come here! Here!

   Mai la sat, aku seghighau satgi depa tabuh aku pulak.

   Please come with me for a second, I'm afraid that they might hit me.

   "Mai la, hang dok takut pa, aku tak buat pa eh," kata Ali kepada kucingnya.

   "Come! What are you so afraid of? I'm not gonna do anything to you," says Ali to his cat.

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *maj, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej. Cognates include Tibetan མེ (me) and S'gaw Karen မ့ၣ် (maỳ).

• IPA^(key): /mai̯˥/

mai

1. fire
2. flame

• R. Shafer (1944) “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, number 2, page 423
• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[1], Payap University, page 44

Hinde (1904) records mai as an equivalent of English dung (cow's) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba maii and Swahili mavi as its equivalents.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /mai/

mai class 6

1. shit, stool^[2]

(Proverbs)

• mbũri ya mai ndĩremaga

• mathugumo

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *mai¹ (“rice; paddy; cooked rice”), from, Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma-j ~ mej (“rice; paddy”). Cognate with Garo mi, Atong (India) mai.

mai

1. rice
2. paddy

• Debbarma, Binoy (2001) “mai”, in Concise Kokborok-English-Bengali Dictionary‎^[2], Language Wing, Education Department, TTAADC, →ISBN, page 78

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

mai f

1. mother

• AEDLL

• (Kedah) IPA^(key): [ˈmai̯]

mai (Jawi spelling ماي)

1. (dialectal) to come (to move from further away to nearer to)

• mari

• "mai" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• “mai” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

mai

1. Nonstandard spelling of mái.
2. Nonstandard spelling of mǎi.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mài.

• 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.

From Proto-Polynesian *mai, Proto-Oceanic, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi. Compare with Hawaiian mai and Rapa Nui mai.

mai

1. hither

mai

1. water

• William L. Gardner, Language use in the Epena district of Northern Congo, SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2006-005 (2006)

mai

1. to be able, physically
2. to be allowed

• kan (to be able, mentally)

• maì

• IPA^(key): [mai̯]

mai

1. Used to form hortatives of verbs; let's

   Mai jaai! ― Let's go!

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[3] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 171
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[4], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 144

• mei (Föhr-Amrum)
• mooge (Mooring)

From Proto-Germanic *maganą.

mai

1. (Sylt) would, would like to, like to

Borrowed from Latin Maius, after Maia.

IPA^(key): /mɑːi/

mai (indeclinable)

1. May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)

• “mai” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “mai” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Borrowed from Latin Maius, after Maia.

mai (indeclinable)

1. May (fifth month)

• “mai” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• (Limousin, Auvergne, Languedoc, "but") mas
• (Gascony, "more/but") mes
• (Gascony, "more") mèi/mei
• (Gascony, Auvergne, "but") mès

• IPA^(key): /mai/

From Old Occitan mai, from Latin magis.

mai

1. (Provençal, Vivaro-Alpine, Languedoc) but
2. (Provençal, Vivaro-Alpine, Languedoc, Auvergne, Limousin) more

   Synonym: pus

• a mai
• mai o mens

From Latin (mensis) Maius.

mai m (plural mais)

1. May (month)

• IPA^(key): /mai̯/, [mɛɪ]

mai

1. food (especially non-meat food; sometimes used for food in general)
2. plant used for food

From Proto-Polynesian *mai, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi. Cognate with Hawaiian mai and Maori mai.

mai

1. from, since

• май (mai) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaj/

• Audio (male voice):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: mai

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic маи (mai), from Koine Greek Μάϊος (Máïos), from Latin (mensis) Maius. Less likely a direct derivation from Latin.

mai m (uncountable)

1. May

   Synonym: (popular/folk name) florar

Inherited from Latin magis.

mai

1. more
2. anymore
3. again
4. before

This word regards degree rather than number, for which a form of the word mult should be appended.

mai ușor ― easier (literally, “more easy”)

mai fericit ― happier (literally, “more happy”)

mai multă fericire ― more happiness

mai mulți băieți ― more boys

el nu mai merge ― he is not going anymore

Inherited from Latin malleus (“hammer”).

mai n (plural maiuri)

1. mallet, maul, sledgehammer, rammer, club

• măior

Borrowed from Hungarian máj.

mai n (plural maiuri) (Moldavia (region), Transylvania, Bukovina, Maramureș)

1. liver

   Synonym: ficat

• matg (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• meg (Puter)

From Latin (mensis) Maius (“of May”).

mai m

1. (Vallader) May

• ma-y, may — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• ma-i

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /maˈʔi/ [mɐˈʔi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ma‧i

maí (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜁ) (obsolete)

1. word loaded with meaning

   Synonym: wikang malaman

   may maing salita ― has a word loaded with meaning

• “mai”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[5] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

• IPA^(key): [ˈma.i]

mai

1. even

   botoboto mai ioho, lado mai ioho ― they even ate grasshoppers, they even ate eels

   ngofa-ngofa amoi ua mai kado ― not even one child came

   ngori pipi cabu mai ua ― I have no money at all (literally, “my money, even a little is not”)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi, compare Malay mari.

mai

1. to come

mai

1. perchance

From Proto-Polynesian *mai. Cognates include Hawaiian mai and Samoan mai.

• IPA^(key): [ˈma.i]
• Hyphenation: ma‧i

mai

1. from

   • 1948, Tūlāfono fakavae a Tokelau [Constitution of Tokelau]‎^[6], page 1:

     Mai te kāloā, ko nā tālaaga ki nā fenua o Atafu, Nukunonu, Fakaofo, ma Olohega na fauhia kē fai ma o matou kāiga.

     From the ancient times, of the tales, the islands of Atafu, Nukunonu, Fakaofo and Olohega You created together, as our home.

mai

1. Indicates the motion of the action of the preceding verb towards the speaker; towards, to

• atu

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[7], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 199

From Proto-Oceanic *mai, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi, from Proto-Austronesian *um-aʀi.

• IPA^(key): /mai/

mai

1. to come

• Ross, Malcolm D. (2003) Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 2, The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maːj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maːj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [maːj˧˧]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) For the connection between "first part of the day" and "day after this one", compare Germanic equivalents such as English morn(ning) and morrow, Dutch morgen, Romance ones such as French demain and Italian domani, and Japanese 明日 and 朝 (ashita).

mai • (埋, 𣈕, 枚, 𪰹)

1. early morning
2. (colloquial) Short for ngày mai (“tomorrow”).
3. the hair in front of a person's ears, sideburns

Sino-Vietnamese word from 梅 (“Chinese plum”).

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) mai • (枚, 梅)

1. Ochna integerrima, a tree species (sometimes shrub) of the family Ochnaceae, sometimes called apricot in English
   • 1999, Lê Trung Vũ and Lê Hồng Lý, Lễ hội Việt Nam, Văn hoá Thông tin, page 357

     Ngày xưa kỳ thi Hội chọn lấy đỗ Tiến sĩ được tổ chức vào mùa xuân, cùng với dịp hoa mai nở.

     In times of old, the ceremony of selecting Imperial Examination laureates was organized in spring, to coincide with the blooming of the apricot trees.

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

(classifier cái) mai

1. (of crabs, turtles and tortoises) carapace (dorsal shell)

   Synonym: mu

Cognate with Muong Bi bai.

(classifier cái) mai • (鋰)

1. a kind of shovel

• dốt đặc cán mai

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 媒 (SV: môi).

mai • (䋦)

1. (Southern Vietnam) matchmaker

• mai mối

Borrowed from Russian май (maj).

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑi̯/, [ˈmɑi̯]
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯
• Hyphenation: mai

mai

1. May

Declension of mai (type I/maa, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	mai	maid
genitive	mai	maijõ
partitive	maitõ	maitõ
illative	maihi, maihisõ	maisõ
inessive	maiz	maiz
elative	maissõ	maissõ
allative	mailõ	mailõ
adessive	maillõ	maillõ
ablative	mailtõ	mailtõ
translative	maissi	maissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “mai”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

From mae (“it is”).

• (North Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /mai̯/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ma/, /mə/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /mai̯/
• Homophone: Mai; mae (South Wales)

mai

1. (formal and North Wales colloquial) that (introduces a noun clause, marking it for emphasis)

   Mae’n dweud mai athro yw ef. (formal)

   He says that he is a teacher.

   Mae o’n deud mai athro ’dy o. (North Wales, colloquial)

   He says that he is a teacher.

   • 2012 April 27, “Uchafbwynt Uwchgynghrair Rygbi”, in BBC Cymru Fyw‎^[8]:

     Byddai buddugoliaeth i Bontypridd yn sicrhau mai nhw fydd yn gorffen y tymor ar frig y tabl.

     Victory for Pontypridd would ensure that they finish the season at the top of the table.

• (South Wales, colloquial) taw

• y
• bod
• i
• nad

Cognate with Ternate mari (“stone”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.i/

mai

1. stone

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[9], Pacific linguistics
• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[10], Pacific linguistics (as may)

mai

1. Alternative form of mye

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 21-23:

     Ye pace——yea, we mai zei, ye vaste pace whilke bee ee-stent owr ye londe zince th'ast ee-cam,

     The peace——yes, we may say the profound peace—which overspreads the land since your arrival,

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114

• IPA^(key): /mai̯˧/

mai

1. face

• IPA^(key): /mai̯˧/

mai

1. pumpkin

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