# pai
## Translingual
### Symbol

pai
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Pe.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Pe terms

## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem.

### Noun

pai m
* father

## Bakumpai
### Noun

pai
* foot, leg

## Big Nambas
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pai/

### Noun

pai
* yam
* year

### References

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

## Central Sama
### Etymology

From Proto-Sama-Bajaw *paray, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay (“rice plant”).

### Noun

pai
* rice (plant)

## Finnish
### Etymology

English pie

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɑi̯/, [ˈpɑ̝i̯]
* Rhymes: -ɑi
* Hyphenation: pai

### Noun

pai
* (American) pie

#### Declension

Possessive forms of pai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
paini
paini
accusative
nom.
paini
paini
gen.
paini
genitive
paini
paideni paitteni
partitive
paitani
paitani
inessive
paissani
paissani
elative
paistani
paistani
illative
paihini
paihini
adessive
paillani
paillani
ablative
pailtani
pailtani
allative
pailleni
pailleni
essive
painani
painani
translative
paikseni
paikseni
abessive
paittani
paittani
instructive
comitative
—paineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
paisi
paisi
accusative
nom.
paisi
paisi
gen.
paisi
genitive
paisi
paidesi paittesi
partitive
paitasi
paitasi
inessive
paissasi
paissasi
elative
paistasi
paistasi
illative
paihisi
paihisi
adessive
paillasi
paillasi
ablative
pailtasi
pailtasi
allative
paillesi
paillesi
essive
painasi
painasi
translative
paiksesi
paiksesi
abessive
paittasi
paittasi
instructive
comitative
—painesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
paimme
paimme
accusative
nom.
paimme
paimme
gen.
paimme
genitive
paimme
paidemme paittemme
partitive
paitamme
paitamme
inessive
paissamme
paissamme
elative
paistamme
paistamme
illative
paihimme
paihimme
adessive
paillamme
paillamme
ablative
pailtamme
pailtamme
allative
paillemme
paillemme
essive
painamme
painamme
translative
paiksemme
paiksemme
abessive
paittamme
paittamme
instructive
comitative
—painemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
painne
painne
accusative
nom.
painne
painne
gen.
painne
genitive
painne
paidenne paittenne
partitive
paitanne
paitanne
inessive
paissanne
paissanne
elative
paistanne
paistanne
illative
paihinne
paihinne
adessive
paillanne
paillanne
ablative
pailtanne
pailtanne
allative
paillenne
paillenne
essive
painanne
painanne
translative
paiksenne
paiksenne
abessive
paittanne
paittanne
instructive
comitative
—painenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
painsa
painsa
accusative
nom.
painsa
painsa
gen.
painsa
genitive
painsa
paidensa paittensa
partitive
paitaan paitansa
paitaan paitansa
inessive
paissaan paissansa
paissaan paissansa
elative
paistaan paistansa
paistaan paistansa
illative
paihinsa
paihinsa
adessive
paillaan paillansa
paillaan paillansa
ablative
pailtaan pailtansa
pailtaan pailtansa
allative
pailleen paillensa
pailleen paillensa
essive
painaan painansa
painaan painansa
translative
paikseen paiksensa
paikseen paiksensa
abessive
paittaan paittansa
paittaan paittansa
instructive
comitative
—paineen painensa :

### Further reading

* “pai”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pay, from padre, from Latin pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaj/

### Noun

pai m (plural pais)
* father
    Coida meu pai que me ten / debaixo do pé dereito: / Fanlle a cama no sobrado: / non sabe cando me deito. (folk song)My dad 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.
* (in the plural) parents

#### Derived terms

* paiciño (hypocoristic)

#### Related terms

* madre
* mai
* nai
* padre
* Pai

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pai”, in Dicionario 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”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pai”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Guinea-Bissau Creole
### Etymology

From Portuguese pai. Cognate with Kabuverdianu pai.

### Noun

pai
* father

## Indo-Portuguese
### Etymology

From Portuguese pai (“father”), from Old Galician-Portuguese padre (“father”), from Latin patrem (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

### Noun

pai (plural pai pai)
* father (male parent)
** 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:Já fallou par su pai aquêl mais piquin, […]The youngest one told his father […]

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay pai from English pie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpai̯]

### Noun

pai (plural pai-pai)
* pie (type of pastry)
    Synonym: pastei

#### Derived terms

* kue pai

### Further reading

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

## Japanese
### Romanization

pai
* Rōmaji transcription of パイ

## Jarai
### Etymology

From Proto-Chamic *tarapay (cognate with Western Cham ꨓꨚꩈ, Malay tapai).

### Noun

pai (classifier drơi)
* rabbit

### References

* ↑ Turgood, Graham (1999) Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 332

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese pai.

### Noun

pai
* father

## Kristang
### Noun

pai
* father

## Leonese
### Alternative forms

* pà

### Etymology

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

### Noun

pai m
* father

### References

* pai at the Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano.
* pai at the Pallabeiru Llïonés.

## Malay
### Etymology

From English pie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpai̯]
* Rhymes: -ai̯

### Noun

pai (Jawi spelling ڤاي, plural pai-pai, informal 1st possessive paiku, 2nd possessive paimu, 3rd possessive painya)
* pie (type of pastry)

### Further reading

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

## Mandarin
### Romanization

pai
* Nonstandard spelling of pāi.
* Nonstandard spelling of pái.
* Nonstandard spelling of pǎi.
* Nonstandard spelling of pài.

#### Usage notes

* 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.

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bait (compare Malay baik, Tagalog bait).

### Adverb

pai
* good
    He iwi hūmārire te Māori, he makoha, he aroha ki te pai.The Māori are amiable people, placid and love that which is good.
* excellent
* suitable
* nice
    He maha hoki ngā whare kua kitea e au he whare nunui, he pai a waho ki te titiro atu, ko roto ia he pai ke atu ngā wharepuni.And there are many houses that I have seen that are large with nice exteriors to look at, but inside the sleeping houses are even better.
* pleasant

### Noun

pai
* goodness
* excellence
* suitability

## Mirandese
### Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem.

### Noun

pai m (plural pais)
* father

## Mokilese
### Verb

pai
* (stative) to be lucky

#### References

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

## Ngaju
### Noun

pai
* foot, leg

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English pie.

### Noun

pai m (definite singular paien, indefinite plural paier, definite plural paiene)
* a pie

#### Derived terms

* eplepai

### References

* “pai” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From English pie.

### Noun

pai m (definite singular paien, indefinite plural paiar, definite plural paiane)
* a pie

#### Derived terms

* eplepai

### References

* “pai” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Papora
### Noun

pai
* (Hoanya) woman

### References

* Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pay, hypocoristic form of padre, from Latin pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of padre.
Compare Galician pai, Mirandese and Leonese pai and Aragonese pai.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpaj/ [ˈpaɪ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpaj/
* Hyphenation: pai
* Homophone: Pai
* Rhymes: -aj

### Noun

pai m (plural pais)
* father (male who sires a child)
* one's father
    Pai, eu estou saindo com as meninas.Dad, I'm going out with the girls.
* (usually in the plural) parent (either a mother or a father)
* (figurative) father (the founder of a discipline or science)
    Os gregos foram os pais da civilização.The Greeks were the fathers of civilisation.

#### Synonyms

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

#### Coordinate terms

* (male who sires a child): mãe

#### Derived terms

* pãe
* Pai
* pai de família
* pai de santo
* pai dos burros
* pai natal
* pai nosso
* paizão (augmentative)
* paizinho (diminutive)
* tal pai, tal filho

#### Related terms

* padrão
* padre
* padroeiro
* patrão
* pátria
* patrono

#### Descendants

* Ambonese Malay: pai, paitua
* Guinea-Bissau Creole: pai
* Indo-Portuguese: pai
* Kabuverdianu: pai
* Kristang: pai
* → Old Tupi: paîa
** Nheengatu: paya
* Sãotomense: pe
** Annobonese: pe

### Further reading

* “pai”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “pai” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

## Romanian
### Etymology

Back-formation of paie, from Latin palea, considered as a plural. Compare Aromanian palj, paljiu.

### Noun

pai n (plural paie)
* straw (a dried stalk of a cereal plant)
* drinking straw

#### Derived terms

* păia
* păios
* păiuș

#### Related terms

* împăia

## Samoan
### Etymology

From English pie.

### Noun

pai
* pie

## Sassarese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paj/

### Preposition

pai
* Alternative form of pa'

### References

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

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English pay.

### Verb

pai
* to pay

### Noun

pai
* wage

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English pie.

### Noun

pai
* pie

## Tsou
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *pajay. Cognate with Kapampangan pale (“rice plant”); Ilocano pagay (“rice plant”); Malay padi (“rice plant”); Javanese pari (“rice plant”); Tagalog palay (“rice plant”).

### Noun

pai
* rice plant

## West Makian
### Etymology

Cognate with Ternate fai (“to dig”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.i/

### Verb

pai
* (transitive) to dig

#### Conjugation
### References

* James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics
* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as pay)

## Yoruba
### Alternative forms

* parí

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /k͡pā.í/

### Verb

paí
* (Ondo) Alternative form of parí (“to finish; to end”)
    Uun jíjẹ tì paí. ― The food has finished.

#### Derived terms

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

## Zou
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pai̯˧˥/

### Verb

pái
* (intransitive) to go

#### References

* Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45