dai

Borrowed from Hindi [Term?], from Sanskrit.

dai (plural dais)

1. (chiefly North India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) A wet nurse; a midwife. [from 18th c.]
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 72:

     Kausalya, she learnt, was his dai, the one who had breast-fed and looked after him.

• -iad, AID, Adi, DIA, Dia, I'da, IAD, Ida, aid, dia-

daí

1. no; not

daí

1. no

From Latin diēs. Compare Istriot dèi, Venetian and archaic Italian dì, Romanian zi.

dai m (plural dai)

1. day

dai

1. go away, get lost

• bun dai

dai

1. cassowary

• Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)

Contraction of da i.

dai

1. contraction of da i:
   1. from the
   2. at the house/home of the

• da' (truncation)

• da'
• dagli
• dal
• dall'
• dalla
• dalle
• dallo

dai

1. second-person singular present of dare
2. second-person singular imperative of dare

dai!

1. An expression of encouragement; come on!

• adì, dia, Ida

dai

1. Rōmaji transcription of だい

da +‎ i

dai

1. from or of the (+ masculine plural noun)

dai

1. Nonstandard spelling of dāi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of dǎi.
3. Nonstandard spelling of dài.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

dai

1. Alternative form of day

From Old Frisian dei. Cognates include West Frisian dei.

dai m (plural daar)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) day

   de öler dai

   the next day

• (Brazil, Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdaj/
• Rhymes: -aj

dai

1. second-person plural (vós, sometimes used with vocês) affirmative imperative of dar

• IPA^(key): [daj]

dai

1. second-person singular present indicative of da
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of da

From Arabic دَعَا‎ (daʿā).

dai (ma class, plural madai)

1. a claim
2. a demand
3. a requirement

-dai (infinitive kudai)

1. claim
2. demand
3. require