pai

From Latin pater, patrem.

pai m

1. father

pai

1. (slang) pie

From Old Portuguese pay, from padre, from Latin pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

pai m (plural pais)

1. father
2. (usually in the plural) parent (either a mother or a father)

From Portuguese pai. Cognates with Kabuverdianu pai.

pai

1. father

From Portuguese pai (“father”), from Old Portuguese padre (“father”), from Latin patrem (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

pai (plural pai pai)

1. father (male parent)
   • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:

     Já fallou par su pai aquêl mais piquin, […]

     The youngest one told his father […]

pai

1. Rōmaji transcription of パイ

From Portuguese pai.

pai

1. father

pai

1. father

pai m

1. father

• AEDLL

pai

1. Nonstandard spelling of pāi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of pái.
3. Nonstandard spelling of pǎi.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pài.

• 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.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bait (compare Malay baik, Tagalog bait).

pai

1. good

   He iwi hūmārire te Māori, he makoha, he aroha ki te pai.

   The Māori are amiable people, placid and love that which is good.

2. excellent
3. suitable
4. nice

   He maha hoki ngā whare kua kitea e au he whare nunui, he pai a waho ki te titiro atu, ko roto ia he pai ke atu ngā wharepuni.

   And there are many houses that I have seen that are large with nice exteriors to look at, but inside the sleeping houses are even better.

5. pleasant

pai

1. goodness
2. excellence
3. suitability

From Latin pater, patrem.

pai m (plural pais)

1. father

From English pie

pai m (definite singular paien, indefinite plural paier, definite plural paiene)

1. a pie

• eplepai

• “pai” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English pie

pai m (definite singular paien, indefinite plural paiar, definite plural paiane)

1. a pie

• eplepai

• “pai” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

pai

1. (Hoanya) woman

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

• pae (obsolete)
• pay (obsolete)

From Old Portuguese pay, from padre, from Latin pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

Compare Galician pai, Mirandese and Leonese pai and Aragonese pai.

• IPA^(key): /paj/, [paɪ̯]
• Homophone: Pai
• Rhymes: -aj

pai m (plural pais)

1. father (male who sires a child)
2. (usually in the plural) parent (either a mother or a father)
3. (figuratively) father (the founder of a discipline or science)

   Os gregos foram os pais da civilização.

   The Greeks were the fathers of civilisation.

• (male who sires a child): genitor, papai (childish), progenitor

• (male who sires a child): mãe

• paizinho, paizito (diminutives)
• paizão (augmentative)
• Pai pai de família
• pai nosso

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: pai
• Indo-Portuguese: pai
• Kabuverdianu: pai
• Kristang: pai
• Sãotomense: pe
  • Annobonese: pe

• padrão
• padre
• padroeiro
• patrão
• pátria
• patrono

• pai in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Back-formation from paie, from Latin palea, considered as a plural. Compare Aromanian palj, paljiu.

pai n (plural paie)

1. straw (a dried stalk of a cereal plant)
2. drinking straw

• păia
• păios
• păiuș

• împăia

From English pay.

pai

1. to pay

pai

1. wage

From English pie.

pai

1. pie

From Proto-Austronesian *pajay. Cognate with Kapampangan pale (“rice plant”); Ilocano pagay (“rice plant”); Malay padi (“rice plant”); Javanese pari (“rice plant”); Tagalog palay (“rice plant”).

pai

1. rice plant