cai

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cai"

Translingual

Symbol

cai

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

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• care, cari

Etymology 1

From Latin quālis, quālem. Compare Romanian care.

Determiner

cai

1. which

Pronoun

cai

1. which, that, who

Etymology 2

Noun

cai m pl

1. plural of cal (“horse”)

Asturian

Alternative forms

• caye
• calle

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cai f (plural cais)

1. street

   Les cais el pueblu entovía-yos falta asfaltu.

   The village streets still need asphalt.

Noun

cai m (plural cais)

1. quay, port

Balinese

Romanization

cai

1. Romanization of ᬘᬿ

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cai m (plural cais)

1. quay, pier, wharf, breakwater

   Synonym: peirao

References

• 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

Highland Popoluca

Noun

cai

1. a dead person

References

• 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

Leonese

Etymology

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

Noun

cai m

1. street, road

References

• AEDLL

Macanese

Etymology

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

Verb

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”)

Derived terms

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

References

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

Manchu

Romanization

cai

1. Romanization of ᠴᠠᡳ

Mandarin

Romanization

cai

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

Usage notes

• 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.

Ngazidja Comorian

Etymology

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

Noun

cai class 9 (plural cai class 10)

1. tea

References

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

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkai/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

cai m (plural cais)

1. (nautical) dock, quay

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj/ [ˈkaɪ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj/

• Hyphenation: cai
• Rhymes: -aj

Verb

cai

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaj/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

cai m pl

1. plural of cal

Sundanese

Romanization

cai

1. Romanization of ᮎᮄ

Tày

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• la̱ng cai
• tẩư cai

 

Etymology 2

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

Noun

cai

1. streets (in general)

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

Etymology 3

From Chinese 該／该 (gāi).

Verb

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

Derived terms

• cai cuổn

References

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

Venetan

Noun

cai

1. plural of cao

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 該.

Noun

cai

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cai quản
• cai thầu
• cai tổng
• cai trị
• đăng cai

 

Etymology 2

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

Verb

cai

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cai nghiện
• cai sữa

 

White Hmong

Pronunciation

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cai̯˧/

Noun

cai

1. law; rule; custom