מאי

Aramaic

Pronoun

מַאי • (transliteration needed)

1. (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic) what, why

Hebrew

Etymology 1

From German Mai, from Latin māius (“Maia's month”), from Maia, a Roman earth goddess, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *magya (“she who is great”), from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“great”).

Proper noun

מַאי • (may) m

1. May (the fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, following April and preceding June)
2. a female given name

Derived terms

• אֶחָד בְּמַאי

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic מאי.

Pronoun

מַאי • (may) m or f

1. (formal) what

Etymology 3

Hebrew numbers ^(edit)

←  10		ק׳ 100
		10
Cardinal: מאה (me'á)     Ordinal: מאי (me'i)

מֵאָה (me'á, “hundred”) +‎ ־י (-i, “used to form adjectives from nouns”).

Adjective

מֵאִי • (me'i) (feminine מֵאִית, masculine plural מֵאִיִּים, feminine plural מֵאִיּוֹת)

1. hundredth

Anagrams

• אים