sai

• IPA^(key): /saɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: sigh, psi, xi, scye, Si

From Japanese 釵 (sai).

sai (plural sai)

1. A handheld weapon with three prongs, used in some Oriental martial arts.

• Sai (weapon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Compare Portuguese sahi, from Tupian sai (“monkey”).

sai

1. A sajou; a capuchin (monkey).

• sai in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sai in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Borrowed from Min Nan 屎 (sái, “excrement; poop”).

sai (uncountable)

1. (Singapore, Malaysia, coloquial, vulgar) shit
   • 1998 February 10, Lin, Thye Hoon, “SM Lee was right - Johor is notorious for muggings!”, in soc.culture.malaysia, Usenet:

     […] the employer of the unfortunate maid that was forced to makan sai are indonesians.

   • 1998 July 9, SimiSar, “[sangkancil] New HK airport faces barrage of criticism (fwd)”, in soc.culture.malaysia, Usenet:

     It is Chek Lap Kok ho lang. You should makan sai. Are you an Orang Laut trying to speak Chinese?

   • 2003 April 18, Bone Toad, “Christ won”, in soc.culture.malaysia, Usenet:

     go and take your morning shower and wash your arse with water and soap after pang sai

• A. S. I., A.S.I., AIS, AIs, ASI, IAS, ISA, Isa, Isa., Sia, a-Si, ais, is-a

sai

1. vulture

sai (genitive saia, partitive saia)

1. white bread

sai

1. Third-person singular past form of saama.

   Ta sai kingituse.

   He got a present.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑi̯/, [ˈs̠ɑi̯]
• Hyphenation: sai
• Rhymes: -ɑi

sai

1. Third-person singular indicative past form of saada.

   Hän sai lahjan. (He got a present.)

• -ias, -isa, ais

sai

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌹

sai

1. (informal second-person singular present indicative of sapere) - (you) know

   Non lo sai? ― Don't you know (it)?

   Sai il mio nome. ― You know my name.

   Tu lo sai! ― You do (know it)!

Unlike English, Italian verb forms for first/second/third-person are different, rendering tu (“you”) redundant, unless emphasis is required as shown in last example above.

sai pl

1. plural of saio

• sia

sai

1. Rōmaji transcription of さい
2. Rōmaji transcription of サイ

sai

1. Nonstandard spelling of sāi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of sǎi.
3. Nonstandard spelling of sài.

• 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.

sai

1. Alternative form of assay

• sae (obsolete), say (obsolete)

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

sai

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of sair
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of sair

sai

1. wedding

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “свадьба”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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

Sino-Vietnamese word from 差 (“bad; incorrect; inaccurate; to order; to send”).

sai

1. be incorrect
2. be inaccurate

• trật

• đúng
• phải

Sino-Vietnamese word from 差.

sai

1. (chiefly in compounds) to order, to send
   • 1920, Trần Trọng Kim, Việt Nam sử lược, Quyển II, Trung Bắc Tân Văn, page 130

     Vua Càn-long nghe lời tâu ấy sai Tôn sĩ Nghị khởi quân bốn tỉnh Quảng-đông, Quảng-tây, Quí-châu, Vân-nam, đem sang đánh Tây-sơn.

     When the Quanlong Emperor had heard this petition, he ordered Sun Shiyi to take the troops of the four provinces Guangdong, Guangzhou, Guizhou, and Yunnan and bring them to fight the Tây Sơn.

sai (𡗂)

1. (of trees) be fruitful

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /θaːi˨˦/
• Tone numbers: sai¹
• Hyphenation: sai

From Proto-Tai *ʑaːjᴬ (“male”). Cognate with Thai ชาย (chaai), Northern Thai ᨩᩣ᩠ᨿ, Lao ຊາຍ (sāi), Lü ᦋᦻ (tsaay), Shan ၸၢႆး (tsáay), Tai Nüa ᥓᥣᥭᥰ (tsaay²), Ahom 𑜋𑜩 (chay).

sai (old orthography sai, Sawndip forms 𪟞, 仔, 哉, 腮, 偲)

1. male; man; boy; fellow

From Proto-Tai *saːjᴬ (“cord; string”). Cognate with Thai สาย (sǎai), Lao ສາຍ (sāi).

sai (old orthography sai, Sawndip forms 𧛷, 緦, 腮, 哉, 𬗹, 彩)

1. band; belt; ribbon

sai (old orthography sai, Sawndip forms 浉, 筛)

1. to waste; to squander
2. to lose (through damage or death)

sai (old orthography sai, Sawndip forms 浉)

1. to pour (wine)

sai (old orthography sai, Sawndip forms 㩙, 师)

1. to saw (wood)

sai (old orthography sai, Sawndip forms 𡧳)

1. (dialectal, of flowers) to bloom