baai

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See also: baái, Baai, and BAAI

Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Dutch baai, from Middle French baie.

Noun

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baai (plural baaie, diminutive baaitjie)

  1. bay
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Etymology 2

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From Dutch baaien, dialectal form of baden, from Middle Dutch bāden, from Old Dutch bathon, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną.

Verb

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baai (present baai, present participle baaiende, past participle gebaai)

  1. (also figurative) to bathe
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Etymology 3

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Borrowed from English bye.

Interjection

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baai

  1. bye

Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Directly or ultimately from Middle French baie. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

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baai f (plural baaien, diminutive baaitje n)

  1. (geography) bay
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  • Afrikaans: baai
  • Negerhollands: bai, bay

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Middle French baie.

Noun

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baai f or m (plural baaien)

  1. baize
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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baai f or m (uncountable)

  1. (Bargoens, slang, dated) wine (in recent texts only used of red wine, and in earlier texts also of wines from the German Rhineland)
    • 1870, P. J. van der Noordaa, "Levenslust", in D. F. Tersteeg, Nederland, vol. 1, J. C. Loman (publ.), page 348.
      »Ja, een half fleschjen rooie baai van een krachtig merk.”
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Japanese

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Romanization

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baai

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ばあい