bai

bai

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Bamileke languages.

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bai (plural bais)

1. A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
   • 2012 August 23, Nick Middleton, Surviving Extremes: Ice, Jungle, Sand and Swamp, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 84:

     One thing about the bais that I hadn't fully taken on board while reading about them was that they tend to be waterlogged because they are usually associated with marshes, streams or springs. […] venturing into the bai, but […] plunging into the bai because […]

   • 2012, David Quammen, Spillover, →ISBN, page 64:

     Gorillas (and other wildlife) frequent such bais, which are waterlogged and sunny, because of the sodium-rich sedges and asters that grow beneath the open sky.

bai

1. (Internet slang) Eye dialect spelling of bye.

Borrowed from Japanese 霾 (bai). First recorded in English in the 1910s.^[1]

bai (plural bais)

1. A yellow mist occurring in spring and fall in China and Japan, caused by yellow dust blown from central China.^[2][1]

• ABI, AIB, Abi, B.I.A., BIA, Bia, IAB, IBA, Iba

• IPA^(key): /bai̯/ [bai̯]

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• Rhymes: -ai̯
• Hyphenation: bai

bai

1. yes

   Antonym: ez

• “bai”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “bai”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): /bai̯/

bai

1. house

Inherited from Latin badius, possibly via Spanish bayo.

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

bai (feminine baia, masculine plural bais, feminine plural baies)

1. bay (colour)

• baieta

• “bai”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “bai”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “bai” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bai” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old French [Term?], from Latin badius.

• IPA^(key): /bɛ/

bai (feminine baie, masculine plural bais, feminine plural baies)

1. bay (of a reddish-brown colour)

• chat bai

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

bai

1. romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌹

• IPA^(key): /baiʔ/
• Rhymes: -aiʔ
• Hyphenation: bai

bai

1. to bring

bai

1. masculine plural of baio

Derived from English by.

bai

1. by
   • 2023, Yuunivorshal Deklarieshan a Yuuman Raits, United Nations, Aatikl 17:

     Evribadi av di rait fi uon prapati bai demself ar wid ada piipl.

     Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

     (literally, “Everybody have the right to own property by themselves with other people.”)

Derived from English buy.

bai

1. buy
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Matyu 13:46:

     Wen im fain wan we wot uol iip a moni, im sel evriting we im uon an go bai it.

     When he found the most expensive pearl ever he went and sold all he had and bought it.

     (literally, “When [a pearl trader] found one worth a whole heap of money, he sold everything he owned and went to buy it.”)

• bai at majstro.com

bai

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばい
2. Rōmaji transcription of バイ

• bá (Barlavento)

From Portuguese vai (the third-person singular of ir (to go).

bai

1. (Sotavento)to go

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

bai (bai⁵ / bai⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄅㄞ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㗑

bai

1. nonstandard spelling of bāi
2. nonstandard spelling of bái
3. nonstandard spelling of bǎi
4. nonstandard spelling of bài

• 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 Pre-Palauan *baye, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.

• IPA^(key): /bai/

bai

1. house (abode)
2. community meetinghouse

From Proto-Philippine *bahi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.

bai

1. grandmother

   Coordinate term: laki

From Portuguese vai (the third-person singular of ir (to go) and Spanish vaya and Kabuverdianu bai.

bai

1. to go
2. to walk

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.i/
• Rhymes: -ai
• Syllabification: ba‧i

bai f

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of baja

From Proto-Polynesian *wai, from Proto-Oceanic *waiʀ, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

bai

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

• IPA^(key): /ba͡i/

bai

1. along.
2. through.

Borrowed from Hungarian baj, from Serbo-Croatian boj (“battle”), from Proto-Slavic *bojь.

bai n (plural baiuri)

1. (Transylvania) trouble

• IPA^(key): /ba.ˈi/, [ba.ˈi]

bai

1. grandmother

bai

1. woman

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: bai
• ABVD: wai

From English buy.

• IPA^(key): /bai̯/, [ba̠i̯], [bɑ̟i̯]

bai

1. to buy

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓaːj˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓaːj˦˥]

bai

1. a type of hoe

   au bai bjai nhả ― use the hoe to cut grass

   bai xu ― pickaxe

bai

1. to hoe

   bai đin ― to hoe dirt

bai

1. ladle

   Synonyms: bôi, buôi, pèo

   bai nặm keng ― broth ladle

bai

1. to mix

   khẩu nua bai thúa ― sticky riced mixed with beans

bai

1. to block; to cover

• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[2][3] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[4] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.i]

bai

1. (transitive) to show

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.i]

bai

1. any of species Etelis carbunculus and Etelis radiosus of snappers.

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

• baimbai (archaic)

From English by and by.

bai

1. will; to be going (to do something); marks future tense.
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:26:

     Bihain God i tok olsem, “Nau yumi wokim ol manmeri bai ol i kamap olsem yumi yet. Bai yumi putim ol i stap bos bilong ol pis na ol pisin na bilong olgeta kain animal na bilong olgeta samting bilong graun.”

     Then God said, "Now let us make people who will become like us. We'll put them in charge of the fish and the birds, of all kinds of animals and of all things on the ground."

2. so that; to; introducing purposive clauses with a different subject from the matrix clause.

   Mi laik bai yu stap bel isi.

   I want you to feel safe/relaxed.

   Na ol i save askim mi long mekim stretpela pasin long ol na stap klostu long ol, bai em i ken amamas.

   And they always ask me to treat them justly and stay close to them so that they may feel secure.

Tok Pisin tense and aspect markers:

• pinis (completive aspect)
• bin (past tense)
• stap (progressive aspect or durative aspect)
• save (habitual aspect)
• bai/baimbai (future tense)

• IPA^(key): /bai/

bai

1. to come

bai

1. according

• baiot

• IPA^(key): /bai̯/
• Rhymes: -ai̯

bai m (plural beiau)

1. blame

   Synonym: methiant

   Arnat ti roedd y bai.

   You were to blame.

   (literally, “The blame was upon you.”)

• ar fai (“to blame”)
• beius (“defective”)
• syrthio ar ei fai (“to acknowledge fault”)
• taro'r bai ar (“to put the blame on, to blame”)

bai

1. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of bod

   Synonyms: basai, byddai, tasai, tai