nai

From Hindi [Term?].

nai (plural nais)

1. (India) barber.

From Romanian.

nai (plural nais)

1. (music) A Romanian diatonic pan flute used since the 17th century.

• muscal

• -ian, ANI, Ain, Ani, Ian, Ina, NIA, Nia, ain', ani, ina

• IPA^(key): [nai]

nai

1. to plant

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• nae

nai f (plural nãi)

1. region, province, county

From Latin nāvis. Compare archaic Romanian naie.

• nae

nai f (plural nãi)

1. vessel, boat (especially with sails)

• cãravi, catrig, lãndurã, luntri, ghimii

nai

1. the most

From Latin nix, nivem. Compare Romanian nea, Italian neve, Romansch naiv, Catalan neu.

nai f

1. snow

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯/, [ˈnɑi̯]
• Rhymes: -ɑi
• Hyphenation: nai

nai

1. Third-person singular indicative present form of naida.
2. Third-person singular indicative past form of naida.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑi̯ˣ/, [ˈnɑi̯(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: nai

nai

1. Indicative present connegative form of naida.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of naida.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of naida.

• ain, ani

From mai (“mother”), influenced by the archaic nana (“mother”),[1] from Latin mater. Cognate of Portuguese mãe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaj/

nai f (plural nais)

1. mother
   • 2016, Xurxo Sierra Veloso, Os fíos, Editorial Galaxia (→ISBN)

     Apuntamentos para axenda mental de hoxe: rifa coa miña nai. A ver por que lle ten que ir contando ela a ninguén que precisei psiquiatra despois da miña separación?

     Appointment in today's TODO mental schedule: arguing with my mother. Why she has to go around telling anyone that I needed a psychiatrist after my separation?

• naiciña (hypocoristic)

• madre
• mai
• padre
• pai

• “nai” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “nai” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “nai” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

nai

1. Rōmaji transcription of ない

From Proto-Finnic *nainen.

nai

1. wife

nai

1. two

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)

nai

1. Nonstandard spelling of nái.
2. Nonstandard spelling of nǎi.
3. Nonstandard spelling of nài.

• 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.

nai

1. badly

Unknown etymology.

nai n (plural naiuri)

1. a type of pan flute

• fluier

Borrowed from Dutch naaien.

• IPA^(key): /nai̯/

nai

1. to sew

• nanai

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [naːj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [naːj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [naːj˧˧]

From Proto-Vietic *k-ɗeː; cognate with Muong đai and Arem /kadeː/.

(classifier con) nai (𬸼)

1. a sambar deer
2. (by extension) any species of deer

Unknown. Perhaps from the "confused" look that deer in general exhibit. Perhaps popularized by the lines that describe "a confused deer walking on autumn leaves" from the poem Tiếng thu (“Sounds of Autumn”) by Lưu Trọng Lư, and subsequently the pop song Mắt nai cha cha cha (“Cha-Cha-Cha Deer Eyes”) which describes the innocence of young girls.

nai

1. (slang) innocent; naive

   giả nai

   to act innocent; to act dumb; to feign ignorance

nai (抳)

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From Middle Welsh nei, from Proto-Brythonic *nei, from Proto-Celtic *neɸūss, from Proto-Indo-European *népōts.

• IPA^(key): /nai̯/

nai m (plural neiaint)

1. nephew