ばい

See also: はい

Japanese

Etymology 1

From ば (topic particle, originally the rendaku version of は (ha)) +‎ い (emphatic particle, from よ (yo) or や (ya)). Compare Kansai わい (wai), formed through the same process.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ba̠i]

Particle

ばい • (bai) 

  1. (dialectal, Kyūshū) sentence-ending particle indicating assertion
    重要(じゅうよう)ばい！
    Jūyō bai!
    (please add an English translation of this example)
See also

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of ばい – see the following entries.
【貝】1
[noun] [from 1284] Babylonia japonica (Japanese babylon or Japanese ivory shell)
Alternative spellings
蛽, 海蠃, 海螄, バイ
【倍】3
[noun] twice, double, two times
[counter] times, -fold
[counter] (typography) a multiple of 全角 (zenkaku, “fullwidth/-height”) or 1 em in Western typography
[counter] (typography, newspapers) a unit in newspaper typesetting, equal to 88 mils, 88⁄1000 in, 8 U (U) and 1⁄16 段 (dan)
(This term, ばい (bai), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as ばい, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ばい.)

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 枚, 唄, 霾, 馬医.)

References


Yaeyama

Etymology

From Proto-Ryukyuan *waya.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bai/

Pronoun

ばい (bai) 

  1. (Hateruma) first-person plural pronoun: we
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