mai

Determiner

 * 1)   (used in the expressions  and )

Adjective

 * 1) far

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mother

Etymology
From or. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) May (month)

Etymology 1
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) rice

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) May

Noun

 * 1) water

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
.

Adverb

 * 1) never
 * 2) ever
 * 1) ever
 * 1) ever

Noun

 * 1) breadfruit

Noun

 * 1) eye

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) May

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) May month of the Gregorian calendar

Etymology
From Proto-Central-Pacific *mai, from, , from.

Verb

 * 1)  to  to move from further away to nearer to

Preposition

 * 1) in
 * 2) from

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) May month

Descendants

 * South Azerbaijani:
 * South Azerbaijani:
 * South Azerbaijani:
 * South Azerbaijani:
 * South Azerbaijani:
 * South Azerbaijani:

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) never

Pronoun

 * 1) me

Pronoun

 * 1) what

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) mother

Noun

 * 1) oil, fat, grease
 * 2) gasoline, petrol

Etymology
From, from , from.

Particle

 * 1) hither, this way, towards the speaker
 * Mai mai mai!
 * Come in, come in!
 * E hoʻolohe mai ana lākou i ka moʻolelo.
 * They were listening to the story.

Usage notes

 * Commonly used after verbs that do not need a directional in English.
 * Mai and aku may change the meaning of the verb:
 * aʻo mai ("to learn") - aʻo aku ("to teach")
 * kūʻai mai ("to buy") - kūʻai aku ("to sell")

Preposition

 * 1) from (used in the sequence mai...mai or mai...aku)

Verb

 * 1) don't

Adjective

 * 1) of today, today's

Verb

 * 1) to bring

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) May

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1)  not ever

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) never
 * 2) ever, always

Related terms

 * (proverb)
 * (proverb)
 * (proverb)
 * (proverb)
 * (proverb)
 * (proverb)
 * (proverb)

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mother

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  May

Noun

 * 1) vegetable food, bush tucker

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) Come, present (at here), attend, be (here)

Interjection

 * 1) Come here! Here!

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) fire
 * 2) flame

Etymology
Hinde (1904) records mai as an equivalent of English in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 as its equivalents.

Noun

 * 1) shit, stool

Etymology
From, from,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) rice
 * 2) paddy

Noun

 * 1) mother

Verb

 * 1)  to  to move from further away to nearer to

Etymology
From, ,.

Adverb

 * 1) hither

Noun

 * 1) water

Adverb

 * 1) ; let's

Etymology
Borrowed from, after.

Noun

 * 1) May

Etymology
Borrowed from, after.

Noun

 * 1) May

Etymology 1
From, from.

Adverb

 * 1)  but
 * 2)  more

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) May month

Noun

 * 1) food especially non-meat food; sometimes used for food in general
 * 2) plant used for food

Etymology
From, from , from.

Preposition

 * 1) from, since

Etymology 1
, from, from. Less likely a direct derivation from Latin.

Noun

 * 1) May

Etymology 2
.

Adverb

 * 1) more
 * 2) anymore

Usage notes
This word regards degree rather than number, for which a form of the word should be appended.

Etymology 3
.

Noun

 * 1) mallet, maul, sledgehammer, rammer, club

Etymology 4
.

Noun

 * 1) liver

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1)  May

Noun

 * 1) word loaded with meaning

Adverb

 * 1) even

Etymology
From, compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to come

Particle

 * 1) perchance

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Preposition

 * 1) from

Particle

 * 1) ; towards, to

Etymology
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to come

Etymology 1
For the connection between "first part of the day" and "day after this one", compare Germanic equivalents such as and, , Romance ones such as  and , and  and.

Noun

 * 1) early morning
 * 2) the hair in front of a person's ears, sideburns
 * 1) the hair in front of a person's ears, sideburns

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * , a tree species (sometimes shrub) of the family, sometimes called apricot in English
 * 1) * 1999, Lê Trung Vũ and Lê Hồng Lý, Lễ hội Việt Nam, Văn hoá Thông tin, page 357
 * "vi"

- Ngày xưa kỳ thi Hội chọn lấy đỗ Tiến sĩ được tổ chức vào mùa xuân, cùng với dịp hoa mai nở.

Noun

 * 1)  carapace (dorsal shell)

Etymology 4
Cognate with 🇨🇬 Bi.

Noun

 * 1) a kind of shovel

Etymology 5
.

Noun

 * 1)  matchmaker

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) May

Etymology
From.

Conjunction

 * 1)  that

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) stone

Noun

 * 1) face

Noun

 * 1) pumpkin