name
Meaning 1
A diminutive of the male given name David, from Welsh.
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Standard Lemma guide
dai
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/daɪ/
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dī
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rhymes with -aɪ
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homophone: die
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homophone: dye
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homophone: Di
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homophone: daye
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CMU ARPABET: D AY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A small northern state of ancient China.
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Usage: historical
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name
Meaning 3
Various other kingdoms and princely appenages of imperial China named for the ancient state.
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Usage: historical
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name
Meaning 4
A prefecture of Shanxi under imperial China.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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name
Meaning 5
A county of Xinzhou Prefecture in Shanxi, China.
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name
Meaning 6
A surname.
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name
Meaning 7
Initialism of Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang
Topics: lifestyle
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Synonyms: DA3
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noun
Meaning 8
A wet nurse; a midwife.
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Usage: Bangladesh, India, North, Pakistan
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noun
Meaning 9
An ethnic group of China, one of the 55 officially recognized minorities.
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noun
Meaning 10
A member of the ethnic group.
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Welsh Dai.
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 代 (Dài), likely from a presinitic name for the area or its people.
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 戴 (Dài).
Borrowed from Hindi दाई (dāī), from Sanskrit.
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 傣 (Dǎi), borrowed from a Tai language. Doublet of Tai and Thai. Compare Thai ไท (tai).
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 代 (Dài) — county
- Chinese Mandarin: 傣族 (dǎizú) — an ethnic group of China
- Kazakh: дай (dai) — an ethnic group of China
- Lao: ໄຕ (tai) — an ethnic group of China
- Lü: ᦺᦑ (tay) — an ethnic group of China
- Marathi: टाइ (ṭāi) — an ethnic group of China
- Nuosu: ꄅꋇ — an ethnic group of China
- Thai: ไท (tai) — an ethnic group of China
- Xibe: ᡩᠠᡞᡯᡠ ᡠᡣᠰᡠᠷᠠ (daidzu uksura) — an ethnic group of China
- Zhuang: Daicuz — an ethnic group of China