pai

pai

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pe terms

From Latin pater, patrem.

pai m

1. father

pai

1. foot, leg

• IPA^(key): /pai/

pai

1. yam
2. year

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

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

pai

1. rice (plant)

English pie

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

pai

1. (American) pie

• “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 3 July 2023

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaj/

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

• paiciño (hypocoristic)

• madre
• mai
• nai
• padre
• Pai

• 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

From Portuguese pai. Cognate with Kabuverdianu pai.

pai

1. father

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

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 […]

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpai̯/ [ˈpai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai̯
• Syllabification: pai

Borrowed from English pie.

pai (plural pai-pai)

1. (cooking) pie (type of pastry)

   Synonym: pastei

Borrowed from Oirata [Term?].

pai (plural pai-pai)

1. arguing people

• “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.

pai

1. Rōmaji transcription of パイ

From Proto-Chamic *tarapay (cognate with Western Cham ꨓꨚꩈ, Malay kucing tapai).^[1]

pai (classifier drơi)

1. rabbit

From Portuguese pai.

pai

1. father

pai

1. father

• pà

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pai m

1. father

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

Inherited from Portuguese pai.

pai

1. father

   Coordinate term: mai

• pai-avô
• pai-mai

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#p

From English pie.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai̯

pai (Jawi spelling ڤاي, plural pai-pai)

1. pie (type of pastry)

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

pai

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

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

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

pai

1. goodness
2. excellence
3. suitability

From Latin pater, patrem.

pai m (plural pais)

1. father

pai

1. (stative) to be lucky

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

pai

1. foot, leg

From English pie.

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

1. a pie

• eplepai

• “pai” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English pie.

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

1. a pie

• eplepai

• “pai” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“female, woman”).

pai

1. (Hoanya) woman

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

• pae (pre-reform spelling)
• pay (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese pay < *pade, child-speech forms of padre, from Latin patrem, the accusative of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of padre.

Compare mãe (“mother”), which underwent a similar phonetic reduction from its root (Latin mater), and, in addition, was nasalized, perhaps because it was more frequently used than this word.

Cognate with Galician pai, Mirandese and Leonese pai and Aragonese pai.

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

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.

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

• (male who sires a child): mãe

• “pai”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “pai” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

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

pai n (plural paie)

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

• păia
• păios
• păiuș

• împăia

From English pie.

pai

1. pie

• IPA^(key): /paj/

pai

1. alternative form of pa'

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpai/ [ˈpai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai
• Syllabification: pai

pai m (plural pais)

1. (colloquial, Puerto Rico) father, dad

   Synonyms: padre, papá

• “pai”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

From English pay.

pai

1. to pay

pai

1. wage

From English pie.

pai

1. pie

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”).

pai

1. rice plant

Cognate with Ternate fai (“to dig”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.i/

pai

1. (transitive) to dig

• 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)

• parí

• IPA^(key): /k͡pā.í/

paí

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

   Uun jíjẹ tì paí. ― The food has finished.

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

• IPA^(key): /pai̯˧˥/

pái

1. (intransitive) to go

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