pai

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pai"

Languages (34)

Translingual

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Aragonese • Bakumpai • Big Nambas • Central Sama • Finnish • Galician • Guinea-Bissau Creole • Indo-Portuguese • Indonesian • Japanese • Jarai • Kabuverdianu • Kristang • Leonese • Malay • Mandarin • Maori • Mirandese • Mokilese • Ngaju • Norwegian Bokmål • Norwegian Nynorsk • Papora • Portuguese • Romanian • Samoan • Sassarese • Sranan Tongo • Tok Pisin • Tsou • West Makian • Yoruba • Zou

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Translingual

Symbol

pai

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Pe.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Pe terms

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

Central Sama

Etymology

From Proto-Sama-Bajaw *paray, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay (“rice plant”).

Noun

pai

1. rice (plant)

Finnish

Etymology

English pie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑi̯/, [ˈpɑ̝i̯]
• Rhymes: -ɑi
• Hyphenation^(key): pai

Noun

pai

1. (American) pie

Declension

Inflection of pai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative		pai	pait
genitive		pain	paiden paitten
partitive		paita	paita
illative		paihin	paihin
		singular	plural
nominative		pai	pait
accusative	nom.	pai	pait
	gen.	pain
genitive		pain	paiden paitten
partitive		paita	paita
inessive		paissa	paissa
elative		paista	paista
illative		paihin	paihin
adessive		pailla	pailla
ablative		pailta	pailta
allative		paille	paille
essive		paina	paina
translative		paiksi	paiksi
abessive		paitta	paitta
instructive		—	pain
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of pai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative paini paini accusative nom. paini paini gen. paini genitive paini paideni paitteni partitive paitani paitani inessive paissani paissani elative paistani paistani illative paihini paihini adessive paillani paillani ablative pailtani pailtani allative pailleni pailleni essive painani painani translative paikseni paikseni abessive paittani paittani instructive — — comitative — paineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative paisi paisi accusative nom. paisi paisi gen. paisi genitive paisi paidesi paittesi partitive paitasi paitasi inessive paissasi paissasi elative paistasi paistasi illative paihisi paihisi adessive paillasi paillasi ablative pailtasi pailtasi allative paillesi paillesi essive painasi painasi translative paiksesi paiksesi abessive paittasi paittasi instructive — — comitative — painesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative paimme paimme accusative nom. paimme paimme gen. paimme genitive paimme paidemme paittemme partitive paitamme paitamme inessive paissamme paissamme elative paistamme paistamme illative paihimme paihimme adessive paillamme paillamme ablative pailtamme pailtamme allative paillemme paillemme essive painamme painamme translative paiksemme paiksemme abessive paittamme paittamme instructive — — comitative — painemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative painne painne accusative nom. painne painne gen. painne genitive painne paidenne paittenne partitive paitanne paitanne inessive paissanne paissanne elative paistanne paistanne illative paihinne paihinne adessive paillanne paillanne ablative pailtanne pailtanne allative paillenne paillenne essive painanne painanne translative paiksenne paiksenne abessive paittanne paittanne instructive — — comitative — painenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative painsa painsa accusative nom. painsa painsa gen. painsa genitive painsa paidensa paittensa partitive paitaan paitansa paitaan paitansa inessive paissaan paissansa paissaan paissansa elative paistaan paistansa paistaan paistansa illative paihinsa paihinsa adessive paillaan paillansa paillaan paillansa ablative pailtaan pailtansa pailtaan pailtansa allative pailleen paillensa pailleen paillensa essive painaan painansa painaan painansa translative paikseen paiksensa paikseen paiksensa abessive paittaan paittansa paittaan paittansa instructive — — comitative — paineen painensa

Further reading

• “pai”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pai”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pai”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pai”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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): [ˈpai̯]

Noun

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

1. pie (type of pastry)

   Synonym: pastei

Derived terms

• kue pai

 

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 of 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

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese pai.

Noun

pai

1. father

Kristang

Noun

pai

1. father

Leonese

Alternative forms

• pà

Etymology

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

Noun

pai m

1. father

References

• pai at the Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano.
• pai at the Pallabeiru Llïonés.

Malay

Etymology

From English pie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpai̯]
• 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

Mokilese

Verb

pai

1. (stative) to be lucky

References

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

Ngaju

Noun

pai

1. foot, leg

Norwegian Bokmål

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 (pre-reform)
• 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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaj/ [ˈpaɪ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpaj/

• 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

• pãe
• Pai
• pai de família
• pai dos burros
• pai natal
• pai nosso
• pai-de-santo
• paizão (augmentative)
• paizinho (diminutive)
• tal pai, tal filho

 

Related terms

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

 

Descendants

• Ambonese Malay: pai, paitua
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: pai
• Indo-Portuguese: pai
• Kabuverdianu: pai
• Kristang: pai
• → Nheengatu: paya
• Sãotomense: pe
  • Annobonese: pe

Further reading

• “pai”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “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

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pai	paiul		paie	paiele
genitive-dative	pai	paiului		paie	paielor
vocative	paiule			paielor

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

Conjugation of pai (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tapai	mapai	apai
2nd person		napai	fapai
3rd person	inanimate	ipai	dapai
	animate
imperative		napai, pai	fapai, pai

References

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[2], Pacific linguistics
• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], 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