sai

Initialism of English South American Indian.

sai

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

From Japanese 釵 (sai).

• IPA^(key): /saɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: sigh, psi, xi, scye, Si

sai (plural sai)

1. A handheld weapon with three prongs, used in some Oriental martial arts.

• Sai (weapon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Compare Portuguese sahi, from Tupian sai (“monkey”).

sai

1. A sajou; a capuchin (monkey).

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sai”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “sai”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Hokkien 屎 (sái, “shit”).

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /saɪ˦˨/

sai (uncountable)

1. (Singapore, Malaysia, colloquial, vulgar) Shit
   • 1998 February 10, Thye Hoon Lin, “SM Lee was right - Johor is notorious for muggings!”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

     […] the employer of the unfortunate maid that was forced to makan sai are indonesians.

   • 1998 July 9, SimiSar, “[sangkancil] New HK airport faces barrage of criticism (fwd)”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

     It is Chek Lap Kok ho lang. You should makan sai. Are you an Orang Laut trying to speak Chinese?

   • 2003 April 18, Bone Toad, “Christ won”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

     go and take your morning shower and wash your arse with water and soap after pang sai

• saw sam sai

• ais, A.S.I., Asi, AIS, a-Si, is-a, sia, Ais, Sia, Isa, A.I.s, Isa., IAS, ISA, ASI, IAs, AIs, A. S. I., SIA

sai anim

1. vulture

Cognate to Livonian sōja (“white bread”). Possibly a derivation from saama. As white bread was often offered during weddings, an initial compound of saialeib would have meant something along the lines of "receiver's bread, wedding bread".

sai (genitive saia, partitive saia)

1. white bread

• saiake (“pastry”)

• → Ingrian: saija

• leib

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sai

1. third-person singular past indicative of saama

   Ta sai kingituse. ― He got a present.

• “sai”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “sai”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• sai in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑi̯/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝i̯]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑi
• Syllabification^(key): sai
• Hyphenation^(key): sai

sai

1. third-person singular past indicative of saada

   Hän sai lahjan. ― He got a present.

• -ias, -isa, ais

sai

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of sair:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

sai

1. romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌹

For pronunciation and definitions of sai – see 獅 (“lion”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 獅).

For pronunciation and definitions of sai – see 西 (“west; western; occidental; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 西).

sai

1. second-person singular present indicative of sapere

   Non lo sai? ― Don't you know (it)?

   Sai il mio nome. ― You know my name.

   Tu lo sai! ― You do (know it)!

sai pl

1. plural of saio

• -asi, sia

sai

1. Rōmaji transcription of さい
2. Rōmaji transcription of サイ

From Portuguese sair, either directly or from the third-person conjugation sai. Compare cai for a similar phenomenon.

sai

1. to go out, to leave

   Quiada já sai ― The maid isn't working here anymore (literally, “The maid has left”)

   Cedo-cedo sai di casa ― He/she left home very young/very early

2. to look like

   Sai di quim? ― Who does he/she look like?

sai

1. nonstandard spelling of sāi
2. nonstandard spelling of sǎi
3. nonstandard spelling of sài

• 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.

sai

1. alternative form of assay

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *swiʔ.

sai

1. blood

• Naxi Dictionary by T.M. Pinson, Lijiang 2012

• seede (Mooring)
• sii (Sylt)

From Old Frisian sidza, sega, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną. Cognates include West Frisian sizze, Danish sige.

• IPA^(key): [siː]

sai

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to say

• sae, say (obsolete)

• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: sai

sai

1. inflection of sair:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• IPA^(key): /saɪ/

sai

1. temporary bridge (e.g. a log lying across a stream).

• shoshoniproject.utah.edu

sai

1. tea

• Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Dagur Elements in Solon Evenki, 2012.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsa.i]

sai

1. (intransitve) to blow

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

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

sai

1. wedding

Inflection of sai (inflection type 7/pedai)
nominative sing.	sai
genitive sing.	sajan
partitive sing.	sajad
partitive plur.	sajid
	singular	plural
nominative	sai	sajad
accusative	sajan	sajad
genitive	sajan	sajiden
partitive	sajad	sajid
essive-instructive	sajan	sajin
translative	sajaks	sajikš
inessive	sajas	sajiš
elative	sajaspäi	sajišpäi
illative	sajaha	sajihe
adessive	sajal	sajil
ablative	sajalpäi	sajilpäi
allative	sajale	sajile
abessive	sajata	sajita
comitative	sajanke	sajidenke
prolative	sajadme	sajidme
approximative I	sajanno	sajidenno
approximative II	sajannoks	sajidennoks
egressive	sajannopäi	sajidennopäi
terminative I	sajahasai	sajihesai
terminative II	sajalesai	sajilesai
terminative III	sajassai	—
additive I	sajahapäi	sajihepäi
additive II	sajalepäi	sajilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “свадьба”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [saːj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂaːj˧˧] ~ [saːj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʂaːj˧˧] ~ [saːj˧˧]

• Audio (Saigon):

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 差 (“difference; discrepancy”).

sai

1. (of people or things people do) not right, correct or proper; wrong, incorrect, improper, inaccurate, imprecise, erroneous, etc.

   Antonym: đúng

   làm sai ― to get something wrong or do something wrong; to err

   Làm sai thì phải nhận.

   When you're wrong, own your mistake.

   Tao (làm) sai hai câu.

   I got two answers wrong.

   Em biết em sai, mong anh tha thứ.

   I know I was wrong / what I did was wrong, please forgive me.

   sai số ― a margin of error

• trật

sai

1. to give an order; to order

   Có giỏi thì làm, đừng có đứng đó sai người ta !

   Do it if you think you're so good, don't just stand there bossing others around!

   • 1920, Trần Trọng Kim, Việt Nam sử lược‎^[2], volume II, Trung Bắc Tân Văn, page 130:

     Vua Càn-long nghe lời tâu ấy sai Tôn sĩ Nghị khởi quân bốn tỉnh Quảng-đông, Quảng-tây, Quí-châu, Vân-nam, đem sang đánh Tây-sơn.

     When the Qianlong Emperor heard this petition, he ordered Sun Shiyi to take the troops of the four provinces of Guangdong, Guangzhou, Guizhou, and Yunnan and bring them to fight the Tây Sơn.

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

sai • (𡗂, 差, 絺, 縒)

1. (of trees) fruitful

   sai quả/trái ― fruitful

• IPA^(key): [saj]

sai

1. penis

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sai”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /θaːi˨˦/
• Tone numbers: sai¹
• Hyphenation: sai

From Proto-Tai *ʑaːjᴬ (“male”). Cognate with Thai ชาย (chaai), Northern Thai ᨩᩣ᩠ᨿ, Lao ຊາຍ (sāi), Lü ᦋᦻ (tsaay), Shan ၸၢႆး (tsáai), Tai Nüa ᥓᥣᥭᥰ (tsäay), Ahom 𑜋𑜩 (chay).

sai (Sawndip forms 𪟞 or 仔 or 哉 or 腮 or 偲, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

1. male; man; boy; fellow

From Proto-Tai *saːjᴬ (“cord; string”). Cognate with Thai สาย (sǎai), Lao ສາຍ (sāi).

sai (Sawndip forms 𧛷 or 緦 or 腮 or 哉 or 𬗹 or 彩, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

1. band; belt; ribbon

sai (Sawndip forms 浉 or 筛, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

1. to waste; to squander
2. to lose (through damage or death)

sai (Sawndip form 浉, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

1. to pour (wine)

sai (Sawndip forms 㩙 or 师, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

1. to saw (wood)

sai (Sawndip form 𡧳, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

1. (dialectal, of flowers) to bloom