baai
Afrikaans edit
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Etymology 1 edit
From Dutch baai, from Middle French baie.
Noun edit
baai (plural baaie, diminutive baaitjie)
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Etymology 2 edit
From Dutch baden, from Middle Dutch bāden, from Old Dutch bathon, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną.
Verb edit
baai (present baai, present participle baaiende, past participle gebaai)
- (also figurative) to bathe
Etymology 3 edit
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baai
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Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Directly or ultimately from Middle French baie. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun edit
baai f (plural baaien, diminutive baaitje n)
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Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Middle French baie.
Noun edit
baai f or m (plural baaien)
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- Afrikaans: baai
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
baai f or m (uncountable)
- (Bargoens, slang, dated) wine (in recent texts only used of red wine, and in earlier texts also of wines from the German Rhineland)
- 1870, P. J. van der Noordaa, "Levenslust", in D. F. Tersteeg, Nederland, vol. 1, J. C. Loman (publ.), page 348.
- »Ja, een half fleschjen rooie baai van een krachtig merk.”
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1870, P. J. van der Noordaa, "Levenslust", in D. F. Tersteeg, Nederland, vol. 1, J. C. Loman (publ.), page 348.
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baai