pai

1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forPe.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pe terms

FromLatinpater, patrem.

pai m

1. father

pai

1. foot,leg

• IPA^(key):/pai/

pai

1. yam
2. year

• Big Nambas Grammar Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox

FromProto-Sama-Bajaw*paray, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*pajay, fromProto-Austronesian*pajay(“rice plant”).

pai

1. rice(plant)

Englishpie

• IPA^(key):/ˈpɑi̯/,[ˈpɑ̝i̯]
• Rhymes:-ɑi
• Syllabification^(key):pai
• Hyphenation^(key):pai

pai

1. (American)pie

• “pai”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-03

FromOld Galician-Portuguesepay, frompadre, fromLatinpater(“father”), fromProto-Indo-European*ph₂tḗr(“father”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈpaj/

pai m (pluralpais)

1. father

   Coida meupai que me ten / debaixo do pé dereito: / Fanlle a cama no sobrado: / non sabe cando me deito.(folk song)

   Mydad thinks that he keeps me under his right foot; but he sleeps up in the upper floor and doesn't know when I go to bed.

2. (in theplural)parents

• paiciño (hypocoristic)

• madre
• mai
• nai
• padre
• Pai

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pai”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pai”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pai”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

FromPortuguesepai. Cognate withKabuverdianupai.

pai

1. father

FromPortuguesepai(“father”), fromOld Galician-Portuguesepadre(“father”), fromLatinpatrem(“father”), fromProto-Indo-European*ph₂tḗr(“father”).

pai (pluralpai pai)

1. father(male parent)
   • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt,Kreolische Studien, volume 3:

     Já fallou par supai aquêl mais piquin,[…]

     The youngest one told hisfather[…]

FromMalaypai fromEnglishpie.

• IPA^(key):[ˈpai̯]

pai (pluralpai-pai)

1. pie (type of pastry)

   Synonym:pastei

• “pai” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

pai

1. Rōmaji transcription ofパイ

FromProto-Chamic*tarapay (cognate withWestern Chamꨓꨚꩈ,Malaytapai).^[1]

pai (classifierdrơi)

1. rabbit

FromPortuguesepai.

pai

1. father

pai

1. father

• pà

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

pai m

1. father

• pai at theDiccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano.
• pai at thePallabeiru Llïonés.

Inherited fromPortuguesepai.

pai

1. father

   Coordinate term:mai

• pai-avô
• pai-mai

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

FromEnglishpie.

• IPA^(key):[ˈpai̯]
• Rhymes:-ai̯

pai (Jawi spellingڤاي,pluralpai-pai)

1. pie (type of pastry)

• “pai” inPusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur:Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

pai

1. Nonstandard spelling ofpāi.
2. Nonstandard spelling ofpái.
3. Nonstandard spelling ofpǎi.
4. Nonstandard spelling ofpài.

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

FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*bait (compareMalaybaik,Tagalogbait).

pai

1. good

   He iwi hūmārire te Māori, he makoha, he aroha ki tepai.

   The Māori are amiable people, placid and love that which isgood.

2. excellent
3. suitable
4. nice

   He maha hoki ngā whare kua kitea e au he whare nunui, hepai a waho ki te titiro atu, ko roto ia hepai ke atu ngā wharepuni.

   And there are many houses that I have seen that are large withnice exteriors to look at, but inside the sleeping houses are evenbetter.

5. pleasant

pai

1. goodness
2. excellence
3. suitability

FromLatinpater, patrem.

pai m (pluralpais)

1. father

pai

1. (stative) to belucky

• Harrison, Sheldon P.,Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

pai

1. foot,leg

FromEnglishpie.

pai m (definite singularpaien,indefinite pluralpaier,definite pluralpaiene)

1. apie

• eplepai

• “pai” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

FromEnglishpie.

pai m (definite singularpaien,indefinite pluralpaiar,definite pluralpaiane)

1. apie

• eplepai

• “pai” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

pai

1. (Hoanya)woman

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

• pae(pre-reform spelling)
• pay(obsolete)

FromOld Galician-Portuguesepay < *pade,hypocoristic form ofpadre, fromLatinpatrem, theaccusative ofpater(“father”), fromProto-Indo-European*ph₂tḗr(“father”).Doublet ofpadre.

CompareGalicianpai,Mirandese andLeonesepai andAragonesepai.

• Hyphenation:pai
• Homophone:Pai
• Rhymes:-aj

pai m (pluralpais)

1. father(male who sires a child)
2. one's father

   Pai, eu estou saindo com as meninas.

   Dad, I'm going out with the girls.

3. (usually in theplural)parent(either a mother or a father)
4. (figurative)father(the founder of a discipline or science)

   Os gregos foram ospais da civilização.

   The Greeks were thefathers of civilisation.

• (male who sires a child):genitor,papai(familiar, childish),papá(familiar, childish),painho(familiar, childish)progenitor

• (male who sires a child):mãe

• “pai”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos,2015–2025
• “pai” inDicionário Aberto based onNovo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Back-formation frompaie, fromLatinpalea, considered as a plural. CompareAromanianpalj, paljiu.

pai n (pluralpaie)

1. straw(a dried stalk of a cereal plant)
2. drinking straw

• păia
• păios
• păiuș

• împăia

FromEnglishpie.

pai

1. pie

• IPA^(key):/paj/

pai

1. Alternative form ofpa'

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006)Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

FromEnglishpay.

pai

1. topay

pai

1. wage

FromEnglishpie.

pai

1. pie

FromProto-Austronesian*pajay. Cognate withKapampanganpale(“rice plant”);Ilocanopagay(“rice plant”);Malaypadi(“rice plant”);Javanesepari(“rice plant”);Tagalogpalay(“rice plant”).

pai

1. riceplant

Cognate withTernatefai(“to dig”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈpa.i/

pai

1. (transitive) todig

• James Collins (1982)Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[2], Pacific linguistics
• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982)The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics (aspay)

• parí

• IPA^(key):/k͡pā.í/

paí

1. (Ondo)Alternative form ofparí(“tofinish; toend”)

   Uun jíjẹ tìpaí. ―The food hasfinished.

• ùpaí(“end”)
• ùpaí ọ̀sẹ̀(“weekend”)
• a kú ùpaí ọ̀sẹ̀(“a greeting for the weekend”)

• IPA^(key):/pai̯˧˥/

pái

1. (intransitive) togo

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013)A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page45