Wiktionary

sai

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sai"

Translingual edit

Symbol edit

sai

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for South American Indian languages.

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Japanese 釵 (sai).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sai (plural sai)

  1. A handheld weapon with three prongs, used in some Oriental martial arts.
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Etymology 2 edit

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

Noun edit

sai

  1. A sajou; a capuchin (monkey).

Further reading edit

Etymology 3 edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sai (uncountable)

  1. (Singapore, Malaysia, colloquial, vulgar) shit
    • 1998 February 10, Thye Hoon Lin, “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

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Anagrams edit

Basque edit

Noun edit

sai anim

  1. vulture

Estonian edit

 
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Etymology 1 edit

Cognate to Livonian sōja (“white bread”). Possibly a derivation from saama. As white bread was often offered during weddings, an initial compound of saialeib would have meant something along the lines of "receiver's bread, wedding bread".

Noun edit

sai (genitive saia, partitive saia)

  1. white bread
Declension edit
Declension of sai (type sai)
singular plural
nominative sai saiad
genitive saia saiade
partitive saia saiu / saiasid
illative saia / saiasse saiadesse
inessive saias saiades
elative saiast saiadest
allative saiale saiadele
adessive saial saiadel
ablative saialt saiadelt
translative saiaks saiadeks
terminative saiani saiadeni
essive saiana saiadena
abessive saiata saiadeta
comitative saiaga saiadega
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • → Ingrian: saija

See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

sai

  1. third-person singular past indicative of saama
    Ta sai kingituse. ― He got a present.

Further reading edit

  • “sai”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “sai”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • sai in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Finnish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑi̯/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝i̯]
  • Rhymes: -ɑi
  • Syllabification(key): sai

Verb edit

sai

  1. third-person singular past indicative of saada
    Hän sai lahjan. ― He got a present.

Anagrams edit

Galician edit

Verb edit

sai

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of sair:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Gothic edit

Romanization edit

sai

  1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌹

Hokkien edit

For pronunciation and definitions of sai – see 獅 (“lion”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 獅).
For pronunciation and definitions of sai – see 西 (“west; western; etc.”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 西).

Italian edit

Verb edit

sai

  1. second-person singular present indicative of sapere
    Non lo sai? ― Don't you know (it)?
    Sai il mio nome. ― You know my name.
    Tu lo sai! ― You do (know it)!

Noun edit

sai pl

  1. plural of saio

Anagrams edit

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

sai

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

Macanese edit

Etymology edit

From Portuguese sair, either directly or from the third-person conjugation sai. Compare cai for a similar phenomenon.

Verb edit

sai

  1. to go out, to leave
    Quiada já sai ― The maid isn't working here anymore (literally, “The maid has left”)
    Cedo-cedo sai di casa ― He/she left home very young/very early
  2. to look like
    Sai di quim? ― Who does he/she look like?

Mandarin edit

Romanization edit

sai

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

Usage notes edit

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English edit

Noun edit

sai

  1. Alternative form of assay

Naxi edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-hjwəj-t.

Noun edit

sai

  1. blood

References edit

  • Naxi Dictionary by T.M. Pinson, Lijiang 2012

Portuguese edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Hyphenation: sai

Verb edit

sai

  1. inflection of sair:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Shoshone edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sai

  1. temporary bridge (e.g. a log lying across a stream).

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Solon edit

Noun edit

sai

  1. tea

References edit

  • Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Dagur Elements in Solon Evenki, 2012.

Ternate edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

sai

  1. (intransitve) to blow

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of sai
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tosai fosai misai
2nd nosai nisai
3rd Masculine osai isai, yosai†
Feminine mosai
Neuter isai
† - archaic

References edit

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Veps edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

sai

  1. wedding

Inflection edit

Inflection of sai (inflection type 7/pedai)
nominative sing. sai
genitive sing. sajan
partitive sing. sajad
partitive plur. sajid
singular plural
nominative sai sajad
accusative sajan sajad
genitive sajan sajiden
partitive sajad sajid
essive-instructive sajan sajin
translative sajaks sajikš
inessive sajas sajiš
elative sajaspäi sajišpäi
illative sajaha sajihe
adessive sajal sajil
ablative sajalpäi sajilpäi
allative sajale sajile
abessive sajata sajita
comitative sajanke sajidenke
prolative sajadme sajidme
approximative I sajanno sajidenno
approximative II sajannoks sajidennoks
egressive sajannopäi sajidennopäi
terminative I sajahasai sajihesai
terminative II sajalesai sajilesai
terminative III sajassai —
additive I sajahapäi sajihepäi
additive II sajalepäi sajilepäi

References edit

  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “свадьба”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Audio (Hồ Chí Minh City)(file)

Etymology 1 edit

Sino-Vietnamese word from 差 (“difference; discrepancy”).

Adjective edit

sai

  1. (of people or things people do) not right, correct or proper; wrong, incorrect, improper, inaccurate, imprecise, erroneous, etc.
    Antonym: đúng
    làm sai ― to get something wrong or do something wrong; to err
    Làm sai thì phải nhận.
    When you're wrong, own your mistake.
    Tao (làm) sai hai câu.
    I got two answers wrong.
    Em biết em sai, mong anh tha thứ.
    I know I was wrong / what I did was wrong, please forgive me.
    sai số ― a margin of error
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Verb edit

sai

  1. to give an order; to order
    Có giỏi thì làm, đừng có đứng đó sai người ta !
    Do it if you think you're so good, don't just stand there bossing others around!
    • 1920, Trần Trọng Kim, Việt Nam sử lược‎[2], volume 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 Qianlong Emperor heard this petition, he ordered Sun Shiyi to take the troops of the four provinces of Guangdong, Guangzhou, Guizhou, and Yunnan and bring them to fight the Tây Sơn.
Derived terms edit
Derived terms

Etymology 2 edit

Adjective edit

sai • (𡗂)

  1. (of trees) fruitful
    sai quả/trái ― fruitful

Ye'kwana edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sai

  1. penis

References edit

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sai”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[3], Lyon

Zhuang edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Noun edit

sai (Sawndip forms 𪟞 or 仔 or 哉 or 腮 or 偲, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

  1. male; man; boy; fellow
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

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

Noun edit

sai (Sawndip forms 𧛷 or 緦 or 腮 or 哉 or 𬗹 or 彩, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

  1. band; belt; ribbon
Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “related to Cantonese 嘥 (saai1)?”

Verb edit

sai (Sawndip forms 浉 or 筛, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

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

Etymology 4 edit

Verb edit

sai (Sawndip form 浉, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

  1. to pour (wine)

Etymology 5 edit

Verb edit

sai (Sawndip forms 㩙 or 师, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

  1. to saw (wood)

Etymology 6 edit

Verb edit

sai (Sawndip form 𡧳, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

  1. (dialectal, of flowers) to bloom
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