# pi
## Translingual
### Symbol

pi
* (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Pali.

## English
### Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pe. Its mathematical use apparently stems from its use as the first letter in περιφέρεια (periphéreia, “periphery; circumference”) and was first cited in 1706 in the Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos by William Jones.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paɪ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪ
* Homophone: pie

#### Noun

pi (countable and uncountable, plural pis)
* The 16th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
* (mathematics) An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π.
* (letterpress typography) Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered.
    Alternative form: pie

##### Synonyms

* (irrational constant): Archimedes' constant, Ludolphian number, Ludolph's constant, Ludolph's number

##### Derived terms

* pi bond
* pi font
* pi-heptomino
* pi meson
* pi-minus
* pi-plus
* pith

##### See also

* (Greek-script letter names) alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega

#### Verb

pi (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle piing, simple past and past participle pied)
* (letterpress typography) To spill or mix printing type.
    Alternative form: pie

#### Adjective

pi (not comparable)
* (typography) Not part of the usual font character set; especially, non-Roman type or symbols as opposed to standard alphanumeric Roman type.
    In computing, pi characters may be entered with special key combinations.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Abbreviations.

#### Noun

pi
* (typography) pica (conventionally, 12 points = 1 pica, 6 picas = 1 inch).
* Piaster.

#### Adjective

pi
* Pious.
** 1927, Magdalen King-Hall, I Think I Remember: Being the Random Recollections of Sir Wickham Woolicomb, an Ordinary English Snob and Gentleman:Our Major was "Cherub" Cheeseman, noted for his foul language. I am afraid he lost a tidy little legacy that he was expecting from his aunt, the Dowager Lady Shuttlecock (a very "pi" old lady), through this same habit of his.
** 1972, Anya Seton, Green Darkness, Hachette UK, →ISBN:“Those are very 'pi' sentiments. Was a preacher in Staffordshire— I was raised chapel, though've tried to forget it—he talked that way... redemption and the lot.”
** 1994, Roger Gard, Jane Austen's Novels: The Art of Clarity, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 101:In Sense and Sensibility, as even you might agree, there's at least the danger of a rather pi moral framework clamping down on the spontaneous fun and leaving the sisters to survive - a bit drearily - on the periphery of a mean world.

##### Related terms

* cicero
* pica stick

### See also

* pi-jaw (etymologically unrelated)
* pi sai (etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* IP, Ip

## Abinomn
### Noun

pi
* (anatomy) gall bladder

### Pronoun

pi
* you (more than two)

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Old Albanian pii, from Proto-Albanian *pīja, from Proto-Indo-European *pih₃-, *peh₃- probably via the reduplicated form *píph₃eti; compare Greek πίνω (píno), Serbo-Croatian pìti, Italian bere. Orel compares the similarity between Proto-Albanian *pīja and Proto-Slavic *pijǫ; Tomaschek compares Tosk pirë/Gheg pinë with Thracian πίνον (pínon, “beer”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pi]

### Verb

* (Standard, Tosk) pi (aorist piva, participle pirë)
* (Gheg) pi (aorist piva, participle pinë)
* to drink, to suck
* to smoke (in use with duhan (“tobacco, cigarettes”))
* to take (in use with drogë (“drug(s)”) and medicinë (“medicine”))
    A pi drogë? ― Do you take drugs?
    A i pive ilaçet? ― Did you take (your) medicine?

### Preposition

* (Tetova-Gheg) pi
* from
    Pi ku ije? ― Where are you from?

#### Usage notes

    (Standard, Tosk) ai pi - he drinks / he is a drinker
       (Standard, Tosk) (unë) nuk pi duhan - I do not smoke
    (Gheg) ai pin - he drinks / he is a drinker
       (Gheg) (unë) nuk pi duhan - I do not smoke

#### Conjugation

* Show compound tenses:

#### Derived terms

* pije, pija f
* pijane f, pijan m
* pijanece f, pijanec m
* pijanike f, pijanik m
* pirashe f, pirash m
* pijetore f, pijetorja f
* pijeshitse f, pijeshitës m
* pijshëm, papijshëm

#### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “pi”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 324-325

### Further reading

* “pi”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
* Newmark, L. (1999) “pi”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎

## Ambonese Malay
### Alternative forms

* pigi

### Etymology

Clipping of pigi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pi/

### Verb

pi
* (intransitive) to go
    Beta pi ka bendar. ― I'm going to the city.

### References

* D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* pri, pre

### Etymology

From Latin per. Compare Romanian pe.

### Preposition

pi
* on

#### Related terms

* pisti / piste, pristi / priste
* pintru

## Berawan
### Noun

pi
* (Central, West) water

### References

* Robert Blust, 2000, Low Vowel Fronting in Northern Sarawak, Oceanic Linguistics, 39:2, pp. 285-319, page 316
* Robert Blust, 2006, The Origin of the Kelabit Voiced Aspirates: A Historical Hypothesis Revisited, Oceanic Linguistics, 45:2, pages 311-338

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpi]
* Rhymes: -i

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan pin, from Latin pīnus, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”).

#### Noun

pi m (plural pins)
* pine; evergreen tree of the genus Pinus
* pinewood

##### Derived terms

* pi blanc
* pi blau de l’Himàlaia
* pi bo
* pi bord
* pi campaner
* pi carrasser
* pi cembra
* pi cerrut
* pi de Canàries
* pi de fulla
* pi de llei
* pi de Monterrey
* pi de pinyes
* pi de pinyons
* pi escarrassó
* pi garriguenc
* pi insigne
* pi negre
* pi pinyer
* pi redó
* pi roig
* pi ver
* pi vermell
* pinassa
* pinastre
* pi de pisos
* pi de Xile
* pi d’Alaska
* pi d’Oregon
* pi melis
* empinar
* pinar
* pineda
* pinenc
* pinetell

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

pi f (plural pis)
* Pi; the Greek letter Π (lowercase π)

### References

* “pi” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Chachi
### Noun

pi
* water
* river

### References

* Peter W. Stahl, Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics (2006, →ISBN, page 253
* Randall Q. Huber, Robert B. Reed, Comparative vocabulary, page 86, 1992

## Classical Nahuatl
### Verb

pi (pī)
* (transitive) To pluck

### References

* J. Richard Andrews (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin pes, pedem.

### Noun

pi m (plural pič)
* foot

## Danish
### Proper noun

pi
* pi (number)
* pi (letter)

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî). Doublet of pe, pee (“Hebrew letter”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pi/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pi
* Rhymes: -i

### Noun

pi f or m (plural pi's, diminutive pi'tje n)
* pi (Greek letter)
* (mathematics) pi (number)

### Further reading

* pi on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pi/

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

pi m (plural pi)
* pi (Greek letter)
* (mathematics) pi

### Etymology 2
#### Conjunction

pi
* (Quebec, colloquial) Alternative spelling of pis (“and”)
** 1963, Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard, page 8:"Blanc d’or rouge noir pi toute"(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Further reading

* “pi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Greenlandic
### Root

pi
* Means nothing in particular.

#### Usage notes

See note at su.

#### Derived terms

* persuaq
* pikoorfik
* pillammak

## Guambiano
### Noun

pi
* water
* river

### References

* Beatriz Vásquez de Ruiz, La predicación en guambiano (Colciencias, 1988)
* Randall Q. Huber, Robert B. Reed, Comparative vocabulary, page 86, 1992

## Inuktitut
### Noun

pi
* Latin spelling of ᐱ (pi)

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi/
* Rhymes: -i
* Hyphenation: pì

### Etymology 1

From Latin pē (the name of the letter P).

#### Noun

pi f (invariable)
* The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.; pee

##### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta

### Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî, the name of the Greek letter Π).

#### Noun

pi m (invariable)
* the name of the Greek-script letter Π/π; pi
* (mathematics) Synonym of pi greco

##### Derived terms

* pi greco

## Japanese
### Romanization

pi
* The hiragana syllable ぴ (pi) or the katakana syllable ピ (pi) in Hepburn romanization.

## Kari'na
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pitupô.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pi]

### Noun

pi (possessed pìpo)
* skin
* bark
* peel, rind
* outer wall (of a basket)
* skin, membrane (of a drum)

### References

* Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 344
* Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “pipo”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 376; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 367

## Kedah Malay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pi/

### Verb

pi
* Go
    Satgi kalau depa nak pi keluaq dah, habaq kat aku awai sikit noh, satgi tak dan.If they are ready to go out, please inform me earlier, so that I won't be late.
    Hang ni oghang kata pa pun bukan nak dengaq, mampuih pi kat hang la.
       You never listen, just go to hell
* Do
    Hangpa pi bedak elok-elok bagi sama banyak buah moktan tu, satgi baghu tak berkelai.You should split the rambutans equally between yourselves, then you won't have to fight over it.
    Awat yang hang pi pukui dia, satgi dia bawak mai geng pi taboh hang pulak, lagu mana?Why did you hit him, don't you afraid he might summon his gang to beat you up?

### See also

* pergi

## Lango (Uganda)
### Noun

pì
* water

### References

* Michael P. Noonan, A Grammar of Lango [Uganda]

## Luo
### Noun

pi
* water

### References

* Benny Garell Blount, Acquisition of Language by Luo Children (1969), page 57
* Roy Lawrence Stafford, An elementary Luo grammar, page 24, 1967

## Mandarin
### Romanization

pi
* Nonstandard spelling of pī.
* Nonstandard spelling of pí.
* Nonstandard spelling of pǐ.
* Nonstandard spelling of pì.

#### 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.

## Marshallese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English bee.

### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [pʲi]
* (phonemic) IPA: /pʲij/
* Bender phonemes: {piy}

### Noun

pi
* bee

### References

* Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

## Mokilese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi/

### Noun

pi
* vagina
    Synonym: pwapwahk

#### Declension
## Norman
### Alternative forms

* pyid (continental Normandy)
* pid (Jersey, Guernsey)

### Etymology

From Old French pié, from Latin pēs, pedis, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

### Noun

pi m (plural pis)
* (Sark, anatomy) foot

## Nuer
### Noun

pi
* water

### References

* Joseph Pasquale Crazzolara, Outlines of a Nuer grammar, page 28, 1933

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀧𑀺 (Brahmi script)
* पि (Devanagari script)
* পি (Bengali script)
* පි (Sinhalese script)
* ပိ (Burmese script)
* ปิ (Thai script)
* ᨷᩥ (Tai Tham script)
* ປິ (Lao script)
* បិ (Khmer script)
* 𑄛𑄨 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

Enclitic form of api.

### Particle

pi
* an emphatic particle

#### Derived terms

* pi nāma

### Conjunction

pi
* also, even so
* even

### References

* Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “pi”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

## Pirahã
### Alternative forms

* water: pii, pé, ipé

### Noun

pi
* water
* thorn

### References

* 1 2 Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Volume 1, 1986
* ↑ Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 96 (as pé, ipé)
* ↑ “Pirahã Dictionary/ Dicionário Mura-Pirahã”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2011 February 2 (last accessed), archived from the original on 2 February 2011

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -i
* Syllabification: pi

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

#### Interjection

pi
* cheep, used to imitate the sound made by a chick

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî), from Phoenician 𐤐 (p‬ /⁠pē⁠/).

#### Noun

pi n (indeclinable)
* pi (Greek letter Π, π)
* (mathematics) pi (irrational mathematical constant)

### Further reading

* pi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpi/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpi/
* Rhymes: -i

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî).

#### Noun

pi m (plural pis)
* pi (name of the Greek letter Π, π)

### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

#### Alternative forms

* pii, piii, piiii

#### Interjection

pi
* bleep (high-pitched sound)

## Quechua
### Pronoun

pi
* who

## Romagnol
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin plēnus (“full”).

### Adjective

pi m (feminine pina, masculine plural pi, feminine plural pini)
* full

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Greek πι (pi).

### Noun

pi m (uncountable)
* pi

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pîː/

### Noun

pȋ n (Cyrillic spelling пи̑)
* pi (Greek letter)
* pi (mathematical constant)

## Shilluk
### Noun

pi
* water

### References

* B. Kohnen, Shilluk grammar : with a little English-Shilluk dictionary, Missioni Africane, Vérone, Italie, 317 pages, page 313, 1933

## Slovene
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /píː/

### Noun

pȋ m inan
* pi (Greek letter)
* pi (mathematical constant)

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi/ [ˈpi]
* Rhymes: -i
* Syllabification: pi

### Noun

pi f (plural píes)
* pi; the Greek letter Π, π

### Further reading

* “pi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Particle

pi
* Suffix used as an alternative to gani to more specifically say "which" of a known noun class.
    Anakaa nyumba ipi? ― Which house does he live in?

#### Inflection
### See also

* gani
* -po: definite place indicator
* -ko: indefinite place indicator
* -mo: "inside" of a definite place indicator

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -iː

### Noun

pi n
* (mathematics) pi, a constant
* pi; a Greek letter

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English pee, the English name of the letter P/p.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /pi/ [pɪ]
* Rhymes: -i
* Syllabification: pi

#### Noun

pi (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒ)
* the name of the Latin-script letter P/p, in the Filipino alphabet
    Synonyms: (in the Abakada alphabet) pa, (in the Abecedario) pe

##### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) titik; ey, bi, si, di, i, ef, dyi, eyts, ay, dyey, key, el, em, en, enye, en dyi, o, pi, kyu, ar, es, ti, yu, vi, dobolyu, eks, way, zi

### Etymology 2

Alteration of po with /i/ to sound cutesy. Originally a typographical error due to the closeness of the positions of the I and O keys in the keyboard.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈpiʔ/ [ˈpiʔ]
* Rhymes: -iʔ
* Syllabification: pi

#### Particle

pî (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒ) (slang)
* Synonym of po
    Okey pi!Okay! (polite)

### Further reading

* “pi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* Ip

## Tocharian B
### Particle

pi
* really, indeed (used to emphasize questions and commands)

## Totoro
### Noun

pi
* water

### References

* Randall Q. Huber, Robert B. Reed, Comparative vocabulary, page 86, 1992

## Tsafiki
### Noun

pi
* water

### References

* Randall Q. Huber, Robert B. Reed, Comparative vocabulary, page 86, 1992

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pii, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *piŋe.

### Noun

pi
* tooth (protrusion of certain objects, e.g. a saw, rake)

#### Inflection
### References

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

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /piː/
* Rhymes: -iː

### Noun

pi f (plural piau)
* The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

### Mutation

This word cannot be mutated.

### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) llythyren; a, bi, ec, èch, di, èdd, e, èf, èff, èg, eng, aetsh, i / i dot, je, ce, el, èll, em, en, o, pi, ffi, ciw, er, rhi, ès, ti, èth, u / u bedol / u gwpan, fi, w, ecs, y, sèd

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pi/

### Verb

pi
* (ditransitive) to give
    Synonym: pula
    nipi de te ― (you) give me (some) tea!
* (ditransitive) to sell
    Synonym: pula

#### Conjugation
### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

## Yoruba
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /k͡pí/

### Noun

pí
* The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) lẹ́tà; á, bí, dí, é, ẹ́, fí, gí, gbì, hí, í, jí, kí, lí, mí, ní, ó, ọ́, pí, rí, sí, ṣí, tí, ú, wí, yí

## Zou
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *puj (augmentative marker).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pi˧/

#### Adjective

pi
* big

#### Noun

pi
* leader

### Etymology 2

From Northern Proto-Kuki-Chin *bii.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pi˧/

#### Noun

pi
* thatch

### References

* Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, pages 40, 45