Luxembourgish

Noun

Pai f ‎(plural Paien)

1. pay, remuneration

Synonyms

• (pay): Loun, Gehalt

Portuguese

Etymology

From pai ‎(“father”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaj/
• Homophone: pai

Proper noun

Pai m

1. (Christianity, usually as a form of address) God
2. (Roman Catholicism) the first person of the Holy Trinity

Synonyms

• (God): Deus, Senhor

Coordinate terms

• (Holy Trinity) (Santíssima) Trindade; Pai, Filho, Espírito Santo

Aragonese

Noun

pai m

1. father

Finnish

Noun

pai

1. pie

Declension

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pay, from padre, from Latin pater ‎(“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr ‎(“father”).

Noun

pai m ‎(plural pais)

1. father

Indo-Portuguese

Etymology

From Portuguese pai ‎(“father”), from Old Portuguese padre ‎(“father”), from Latin patrem ‎(“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr ‎(“father”).

Noun

pai ‎(plural pai pai)

1. father (male parent)
   • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:

     Já fallou par su pai aquêl mais piquin, […]

     The youngest one told his father […]

Japanese

Romanization

pai

1. rōmaji reading of パイ

Kristang

Noun

pai

1. father

Lojban

Cmavo

pai

1. pi (π, the irrational number which is the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a given circle: 3.14159265358979...)

Rafsi

pai

1. rafsi of pajni.

Mandarin

Romanization

pai

1. Nonstandard spelling of pāi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of pái.
3. Nonstandard spelling of pǎi.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pài.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin pater, patrem.

Noun

pai m ‎(plural pais)

1. father

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English pie

Noun

pai m ‎(definite singular paien, indefinite plural paier, definite plural paiene)

1. pie

Derived terms

• eplepai

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English pie

Noun

pai m ‎(definite singular paien, indefinite plural paiar, definite plural paiane)

1. pie

Derived terms

• eplepai

Papora

Noun

pai

1. (Hoanya) woman

References

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pae (obsolete)
• pay (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pay, from padre, from Latin pater ‎(“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr ‎(“father”).

Compare Galician pai, Mirandese and Leonese pai and Aragonese pai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paj/, [paɪ̯]
• Homophone: Pai
• Rhymes: -aj

Noun

pai m (plural pais)

1. father (male who sires a child)
2. (chiefly in the plural) parent (either a mother or a father)
3. (figuratively) father (the founder of a discipline or science)

   Os gregos foram os pais da civilização.‎

   The Greeks were the fathers of civilisation.

Synonyms

• (male who sires a child): genitor, papai (childish), progenitor

Coordinate terms

• (male who sires a child): mãe

Derived terms

• paizinho, paizito (diminutives)
• paizão (augmentative)
• Pai
• pai de família
• pai nosso

Related terms

• padrão
• padre
• padroeiro
• patrão
• pátria
• patrono

Romanian

Etymology

Back-formation from paie, from Latin palea, considered as a plural. Compare Aromanian palj, paljiu.

Noun

pai n ‎(plural paie)

1. straw (a dried stalk of a cereal plant)
2. drinking straw

Declension

Derived terms

• păia
• păios
• păiuș

Related terms

• împăia