quai

Inherited from Old French cail, specifically from forms without the final l such as kay, kai. Doublet of age and haie.

• IPA^(key): /ke/, /kɛ/

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quai m (plural quais)

1. quay, wharf
2. platform (of a station)

• → Vietnamese: kè

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

Borrowed from French quai.

quai m (invariable)

1. quay, wharf
2. (railroad) platform

From Proto-Austronesian *quay.

quai

1. rattan

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

(classifier cái) quai • (乖, 𢮿, 𨧰)

1. strap