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Etymology

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Final clipping of comadre.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /maˈdi/ [maˈd̪i]
  • Hyphenation: ma‧di

Noun

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madí (masculine padi, Basahan spelling ᜋᜇᜒ)

  1. female sponsor at a wedding or baptism
    Synonyms: ninang, komadre

Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French mardi (Tuesday).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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madi

  1. Tuesday

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Arabic مَادِّيّ (māddiyy).

Adjective

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madi

  1. material

Italiot Greek

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Etymology

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From Medieval Byzantine Greek μάτιν (mátin) which is in turn from the Ancient Greek ὀμμάτιον (ommátion), diminutive of ὄμμα (ómma, eye). Cognate with Greek μάτι (máti).

Noun

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madi n (Greek spelling μάτι, plural madia)

  1. eye

Declension

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Lala (South Africa)

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *màjíjɪ̀.

Noun

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mâdi

  1. water

Louisiana Creole

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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madi

  1. Alternative form of maddi (Tuesday)

Sotho

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.

Noun

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madi

  1. blood

Descendants

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  • Phuthi: emalî

Tswana

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.

Noun

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madi class 6

  1. blood

Etymology 2

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Seemingly a wanderwort ultimately from Swahili mali; compare Shona mari, Zulu imali. However, polysemy between "blood" and "money" is common among Khoisan languages, and also found in Bantu in the Kalahari region: Yeyi maropa (blood, money), Mbukushu manyinga (blood, money).

Noun

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madi class 6

  1. money

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV madi
Brazilian standard madi
New Tribes madi

Alternative forms

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  • maadi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

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Noun

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madi

  1. (Caura River dialect) the capped heron, Pilherodius pileatus

Derived terms

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References

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  • Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “madi”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎[1] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 122
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 229, 393:[mạ:di] 'small, white heron' [] ma:di - small white heron
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tadāya”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021:Also mādi, small white h.; and ahīša, large white h.
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 36