# rai
## English
### Etymology 1

From Yapese raay.

#### Noun

rai (countable and uncountable, plural rai)
* stone money

##### Derived terms

* rai stone

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

rai (uncountable)
* Alternative spelling of raï (“musical style”)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Thai ไร่ (râi).

#### Noun

rai (countable and uncountable, plural rai)
* A unit of area used in Thailand that is equal, in modern times, to 1,600 square metres (16 ares, 0.16 hectares, 0.3954 acres).

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Ira, IAR, IRA, air, 'air, AIR, RIA, Ari, ria, ARI

## Aragonese
### Alternative forms

* arrai

### Etymology

Unknown. Also found in Catalan rai and Occitan rai, with the same usage.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrai̯/
* Rhymes: -ai̯
* Syllabification: rai

### Interjection

rai
* Exclamation to assent or agree, in accordance with something obvious, of recognition of the evidence or of the great ease of what is said or what was just said. This great ease can also derive into downplaying something.
    Si tu pagas, rai!! ― If you pay, then sure!
    Ixò rai! ― don't worry about that / that's of no importance! / We know that already!
    A vusatros rai!, que ixo no tos afecta! ― Of course that doesn't bother you! That doesn't affect you!

#### Usage notes

* It is a particle that it is always put after another word (noun, pronoun, infinitive, etc) to make a complete proposition without verb in form of exclamation indicating that a thing does not matter, is the evidence out of the case treated or that it is presupposed.

## Atong (India)
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /raj/

### Noun

rai (Bengali script রায় or রাই)
* reed

### References

* van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

## Bourguignon
### Etymology

From Old French rai, from Latin radius.

### Noun

rai m (plural rais)
* ray

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈraj]

### Etymology 1

Originally a Western Catalan dialectal form of raig.

#### Noun

rai m (plural rais)
* raft

##### Derived terms

* raier

### Etymology 2

Unknown. Also found in Aragonese rai and Occitan rai, with the same usage.

#### Interjection

rai
* Exclamation to assent or agree, in accordance with something obvious, of recognition of the evidence or of the great ease of what is said or what was just said.
    Si tu pagues, rai!! ― If you pay, then sure!
    Això rai! ― don't worry about that / that's of no importance! / We know that already!
    Clar, a vosaltresrai!, si això no us afecta! ― Of course, that doesn't bother you! That doesn't affect you!

##### Usage notes

* It is a particle that it is always put after another word (noun, pronoun, infinitive, etc) to make a complete proposition without verb in form of exclamation indicating that a thing does not matter, is the evidence out of the case treated or that it is presupposed.

### Further reading

* “rai” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Fijian
### Noun

rai
* sight

### Verb

rai
* to see

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French rai, inherited from Latin radius. Doublet of radius, a borrowing. Unrelated to raie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁɛ/
* Homophones: raie, rets

### Noun

rai m (plural rais)
* ray, beam (of light etc.)
    Synonym: rayon
* spoke (of wheel)

#### Derived terms

* rayon

#### Related terms

* radiation
* radieux
* irradier

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* air, ira

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin radius.

### Noun

rai m (plural rais)
* ray, beam
* spoke
* radius

## Hausa
### Etymology

Possibly cognate with Duwai r̃ùwà (“life”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɽâi/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ɽâi]

### Noun

râi m (plural rāyukā̀, possessed form râin)
* life
* spirit, mind
* hope, salvation
* prosperity

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan rai, from Latin radius. Doublet of raggio, razzo, and radio, the first two of which were inherited from Latin, while the last was borrowed from Latin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈraj/
* Rhymes: -aj
* Hyphenation: rài

### Noun

rai m pl (plural only)
* (literary) rays
* (literary, figurative) looks
* (literary, figurative) eyes

### Further reading

* rai in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
* Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “rai”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati

### Anagrams

* -ari, -irà, Ari, ari, ira, ria, rià

## Japanese
### Romanization

rai
* Rōmaji transcription of らい
* Rōmaji transcription of ライ

## Javanese
### Alternative forms

* Carakan: ꦫꦲꦶ

### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daqih, compare Malay dahi and Kavalan zais.

### Noun

rai (krama ngoko rai, krama inggil pasuryan)
* face
    Synonyms: dhapur, muka, rupa, wajah

### References

* The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2011) “rai”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), 2nd edition, Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN

## Kavalan
### Noun

rai
* mussel

## Malay
### Noun

rai
* rye

## Maori
### Noun

rai
* rye

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French rai, from Latin radius (“spoke”).

### Noun

rai m (plural rais)
* (Jersey, cycling, etc.) spoke

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin rādius.

### Noun

rai oblique singular, m (oblique plural rais, nominative singular rais, nominative plural rai)
* beam; ray (of light)
** late 12th century, anonymous author, “La Folie de Tristan de Berne”, in Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 314, line 202:li rais sor sa face luisoitthe ray was shining on his face

#### Descendants

* Bourguignon: rai
* → English: ray
* French: rai
* Norman: rai

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic рай (raj), from Proto-Slavic *rajь, borrowed from Iranian, from Proto-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /raj/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

rai n (plural raiuri)
* eden
* paradise

#### See also

* paradis, cer

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* retg (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)
* rètg (Surmiran)
* raig (Puter)

### Etymology

From Latin rēx, rēgem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

### Noun

rai m (plural rais)
* (Vallader) king

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English ride.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrai/ [ˈrai̯]
* Rhymes: -ai
* Syllabification: rai

### Noun

rai m (uncountable)
* (colloquial, El Salvador, Mexico) ride, lift
    Synonyms: aventón, (Spain) vuelta en coche
    No te preocupés: mi amiga me va a dar rai.Don't worry: my friend's gonna give me a ride.

### Further reading

* “rai”, 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
* “rai”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic رَأْي (raʔy).

#### Noun

rai class IX (plural rai class X)
* opinion, view

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

#### Verb

-rai (infinitive kurai)
* to coax

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -rai :
| Positive present | -narai |
| Subjunctive | -rai |
| Negative | -rai |
| Imperative singular | rai |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kurai |
| Negative | kutorai |
Imperatives :
| Singular | rai |
| Plural | raini |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hurai |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lirai |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kurai |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tarai |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tarai |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sirai |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngerai |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singerai |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalirai |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalirai |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -merai |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -mesharai |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jarai |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kirai |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -siporai |
| Consecutive | karai / positive subject concord + -karai |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -karai |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

#### Noun

rai class IX (plural rai class X)
* health

### References

* ↑ Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 114 Nr. 1006

## Tetum
### Etymology

From *dari, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀəq, compare Ilocano daga.

### Noun

rai
* earth
* land

## Veps
### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian рай (raj).

### Noun

rai
* paradise, heaven

#### Inflection
### References

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

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rai̯/

### Determiner

rai
* Soft mutation of rhai.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.