cai

cai

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

• care, cari

From Latin quālis, quālem. Compare Romanian care.

cai

1. which

cai

1. which, that, who

cai m pl

1. plural of cal (“horse”)

• caye
• calle

cai f (plural cais)

1. street

   Les cais el pueblu entovía falta-yos asfaltu.

   The village streets still need asphalt.

cai m (plural cais)

1. quay, port

cai

1. Romanization of ᬘᬿ

From Old French kay, from Gaulish *kagyum, cagiíun (“enclosure”), from Proto-Celtic *kagyom (“pen, enclosure”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkai̯]

cai m (plural cais)

1. quay, pier, wharf, breakwater

   Synonym: peirao

• “cai” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cai” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

cai

1. a dead person

• Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 11

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cai m

1. street, road

• AEDLL

From Portuguese cai, third-person singular present conjugation of cair. Compare sai for a similar phenomenon.

cai

1. to fall

   cai madre ― (of the uterus) to prolapse (literally, “to fall womb”)

   cai na asnéra ― to commit a faux-pas (literally, “to fall into trouble”)

   cai na putau ― to blunder (literally, “to fall into a clay dish”)

   Já cai de cadera

   He fell off the chair

   Já cai di cumprido na chám

   He fell and lay sprawled on the floor

   Cuidado, nom-mestê tropeçá! Vôs cai, nôs cai juntado co vôs.

   Be careful, don’t stumble! If you fall down, we will fall down with you.

2. to get carried away

   cai pê-mám ― to lose one's temper; to become disoriented (literally, “to fall feet-hands”)

   cai sin sintido ― to faint; to swoon (literally, “to fall without sense”)

• cai chuva
• cai sol (“to grow dark”, literally “to fall sun”)

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#c

cai

1. Romanization of ᠴᠠᡳ

cai

1. Nonstandard spelling of cāi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of cái.
3. Nonstandard spelling of cǎi.
4. Nonstandard spelling of cài.

• 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.

Likely from Persian چای (čây); see Swahili chai for more.

cai class 9 (plural cai class 10)

1. tea

• “cai” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkai/

• Audio

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cai m (plural cais)

1. (nautical) dock, quay

• Hyphenation: cai
• Rhymes: -aj

cai

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

• IPA^(key): /kaj/

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cai m pl

1. plural of cal

cai

1. Romanization of ᮎᮄ

cai

1. plural of cao

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

Sino-Vietnamese word from 該.

cai

1. (military, historical) corporal
2. overseer; foreman; supervisor
3. (dialectal) Short for cai tổng (“district chief”).

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 戒 (SV: giới).

cai

1. to break (a habit); to grow out of (a habit); to give up

cai

1. law; rule; custom