pai

See also Pai, pái, pài, păi, pǎi, and pāi

Finnish

Noun

pai

1. pie

Declension

Declension of pai (type maa) singular plural nominative pai pait genitive pain paiden paitten partitive paita paita accusative pai pain pait inessive paissa paissa elative paista paista illative paihin paihin adessive pailla pailla ablative pailta pailta allative paille paille essive paina paina translative paiksi paiksi instructive – pain abessive paitta paitta comitative – paineen

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin pater

Noun

pai m (plural pais)

1. father

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Japanese

Romanization

pai

1. See パイ

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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.

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

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pay (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /paj/, [paɪ̯]
• Homophone: Pai

Noun

pai m (plural pais)

1. father (male who sires a child)
2. (usually 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