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Etymology 1
From, , , , , from (see further at etymology 2); compare   and ,.

The word is cognate with 🇨🇬 (modern 🇨🇬, ), and also akin to 🇨🇬. See also.

Adjective

 * 1) Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
 * The main office is actually one of the smaller rooms.
 * 1) Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
 * 2)  Full, sheer, undivided.
 * 3)  Big; angry.
 * 4)  Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
 * 5)  Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.
 * 1)  Full, sheer, undivided.
 * 2)  Big; angry.
 * 3)  Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
 * 4)  Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.
 * 1)  Full, sheer, undivided.
 * 2)  Big; angry.
 * 3)  Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
 * 4)  Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.
 * 1)  Big; angry.
 * 2)  Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
 * 3)  Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.

Translations

 * Arabic: رَئِيسِيّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: رئيسي
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: principal
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hoved-, generel, hovedsagelig
 * Dutch: hoofd-, ,
 * Esperanto: ĉefa
 * Estonian: pea-
 * Finnish: pää-, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მთავარი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κεφάλαιος
 * Hebrew:, עִיקָּרִי
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:, paling penting
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: principalis
 * Lingala: ya libosó
 * Macedonian: главен
 * Malay: utama,
 * Manx: ard-nheeagh
 * Maori: matua,
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: prîncipal
 * Norwegian: hoved-
 * Old English: hēafod-, hēafodlīċ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гла̀внӣ
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: gláven
 * Spanish:, troncal
 * Swedish:, , , compounds with
 * Tagalog: pangunahin
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ལྟེ་བ
 * Tigrinya: መበገሲ
 * Turkish:
 * Tày: cải
 * Ukrainian:, основни́й
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük: cifik

Adverb

 * 1)  Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.

Verb

 * 1)  To mainly play a specific character or side, or with specific equipment, during a game.
 * 2)  To convert (a road) into a main or primary road.
 * 1)  To convert (a road) into a main or primary road.
 * 1)  To convert (a road) into a main or primary road.
 * 1)  To convert (a road) into a main or primary road.
 * 1)  To convert (a road) into a main or primary road.
 * 1)  To convert (a road) into a main or primary road.

Etymology 2
From, , , , , from , from , , from.

The word is cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , , 🇨🇬. More recent senses are derived from the adjective.

Noun

 * 1)  That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
 * 2)  The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character.
 * 3) A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.
 * 4)  The high seas.
 * 5)  The mainland.
 * 6)  Force, power, strength, violent effort.
 * 1) A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.
 * 2)  The high seas.
 * 3)  The mainland.
 * 4)  Force, power, strength, violent effort.
 * 1)  The high seas.
 * 2)  The mainland.
 * 3)  Force, power, strength, violent effort.
 * 1)  The mainland.
 * 2)  Force, power, strength, violent effort.
 * 1)  The mainland.
 * 2)  Force, power, strength, violent effort.
 * 1)  The mainland.
 * 2)  Force, power, strength, violent effort.
 * 1)  The mainland.
 * 2)  Force, power, strength, violent effort.
 * 1)  Force, power, strength, violent effort.
 * 1)  Force, power, strength, violent effort.
 * 1)  Force, power, strength, violent effort.
 * 1)  Force, power, strength, violent effort.
 * 1)  Force, power, strength, violent effort.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: основна част
 * Danish: hoved-
 * Dutch: hoofd-


 * Bulgarian: главна тръба
 * Danish: hovedledning
 * Finnish: pääjohto
 * German: Hauptleitung
 * Khmer: បំពង់ធំ
 * Manx: ard-phiob


 * Finnish:
 * Swedish:

Etymology 3

 * probably from the adjective main. Evidence is lacking for a derivation from.

Noun

 * 1)  A hand or match in a game of dice.
 * 2) * 1876, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round
 * That no minute might be wasted, the gay gallants of the time generally had a dice-box and a cast of dice in their pockets. This was convenient in the extreme, as, in the intervals of racing, a main could be thrown
 * 1)  The largest throw in a match at dice; in the game of hazard, a number from one to nine called out by a person before the dice are thrown.
 * 2)  A stake played for at dice.
 * 3)  A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.
 * 4) A banker's shovel for coins.
 * 1)  A stake played for at dice.
 * 2)  A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.
 * 3) A banker's shovel for coins.
 * 1) A banker's shovel for coins.
 * 1) A banker's shovel for coins.

Etymology 4
, possibly from.

Noun

 * 1)  A basket for gathering grapes.

Verb

 * 1)  to maintain

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

Determiner

 * 1)  my
 * 2)  mine
 * 1)  mine
 * 1)  mine
 * 1)  mine

Etymology
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)  me

Etymology
,, , , from , from , perhaps from , derived from , or perhaps from a (see the Proto-Italic entry). Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) hand
 * 2)  handball
 * 3)  hand
 * 4)  quire

Etymology
From, from , a reduction from Pre-Proto-Malayic *q-um-ayam, from. Doublet of.

Verb
(bermain)


 * 1) to play
 * 2)  dummy word before verbs

Verb

 * 1) to gamble

Noun

 * 1) woman

Etymology
A phonemical reduction from Pre-Proto-Malayic *q-um-ayam, from. The Buku Katan alternatively proposes it as a product of suffixing.

Verb

 * 1) to play

Etymology
From, , , from.

Noun

 * 1)  hand

Etymology
From, , , from.

Noun

 * 1)  hand

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  hand

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to play

Etymology
Perhaps ultimately from the root of. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) slender, thin
 * 2) fine
 * 1) fine