cai

cai

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

• care, cari

From Latin quālis, quālem. Compare Romanian care.

cai

1. which

cai

1. which, that, who

cai m pl

1. plural of cal (“horse”)

• caye
• calle

• IPA^(key): /ˈkai̯/ [ˈkai̯]
• Hyphenation: cai

cai f (plural cais)

1. street

   Les cais el pueblu entovía-yos falta asfaltu.

   The village streets still need asphalt.

cai m (plural cais)

1. quay, port

cai (Balinese script ᬘᬿ)

1. (medya) you

   Alternative form: ci

   Abaang cai nasi! ― Hey you, bring some rice!

   Dija bakatang cai pulpéné ené? ― Where did you get this pen?

• “cai” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

From Old French kay, from Gaulish *kagyum, cagiíun (“enclosure”), from Proto-Celtic *kagyom (“pen, enclosure”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaj/ [ˈkɑj]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: cai

cai m (plural cais)

1. quay, pier, wharf, breakwater

   Synonym: peirao

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cai”, 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), “cai”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

cai

1. a dead person

• Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 11

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cai m

1. street, road

• AEDLL

From Portuguese cai, third-person singular present conjugation of cair. Compare sai for a similar phenomenon.

cai

1. to fall

   cai madre ― (of the uterus) to prolapse (literally, “to fall womb”)

   cai na asnéra ― to commit a faux-pas (literally, “to fall into trouble”)

   cai na putau ― to blunder (literally, “to fall into a clayen dish”)

   Já cai de cadera

   He fell off the chair

   Já cai di cumprido na chám

   He fell and lay sprawled on the floor

   Cuidado, nom-mestê tropeçá! Vôs cai, nôs cai juntado co vôs.

   Be careful, don’t stumble! If you fall down, we will fall down with you.

2. to get carried away

   cai pê-mám ― to lose one's temper; to become disoriented (literally, “to fall feet-hands”)

   cai sin sintido ― to faint; to swoon (literally, “to fall without sense”)

• cai chuva
• cai sol (“to grow dark”, literally “to fall sun”)

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

cai

1. romanization of ᠴᠠᡳ

cai

1. nonstandard spelling of cāi
2. nonstandard spelling of cái
3. nonstandard spelling of cǎi
4. nonstandard spelling of cài

• 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.

Likely from Persian چای (čây); see Swahili chai for more.

cai class 9 (plural cai class 10)

1. tea

• “cai” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkai/

• Audio:

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cai m (plural cais)

1. (nautical) dock, quay

• Hyphenation: cai
• Rhymes: -aj

cai

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

• IPA^(key): /kaj/

• Audio:

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cai m pl

1. plural of cal

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ (“fresh water; stream, river”).

• Audio:

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cai (Sundanese script ᮎᮄ)

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)
2. fluid; liquid
3. juice (of fruit)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*wahiR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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

cai (垓)

1. veranda opposite the entrance in Tày-styled stilt houses

   Synonyms: la̱ng cai, hống

   nẳng tẩư cai ― to sit at the veranda

2. yard

   Synonym: coo̱ng

   Cáy chin khẩu chang cai.

   Chickens eat rice at the yard.

From Chinese 街 (MC kea|keaj, “street”). Cognate with Bouyei gaail and Zhuang gai.

cai

1. streets (in general)

   oóc cai khảu bản ― out of the streets into the village

From Chinese 該 / 该 (gāi).

cai

1. to manage

   Synonym: cuổn

   cai bấu lồng ― could not manage

   hết cai ― to do management

2. to domineer

   pây cai hâu ― to go domineering over other people

• cai cuổn

• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[2][3] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[4] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[5] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

cai

1. plural of cao

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

Sino-Vietnamese word from 該.

cai

1. (military, historical) corporal
2. overseer; foreman; supervisor
3. (dialectal) short for cai tổng (“district chief”)

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 戒 (SV: giới).

cai

1. to break (a habit); to grow out of (a habit); to give up

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• IPA^(key): /cai̯˧/

cai

1. law; rule; custom