mài

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mai"

Kambera

Verb

mài

1. (intransitive) to come

See also

• laku (“to go, walk”)

References

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 182

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Mandarin

Romanization

mài (mai⁴, Zhuyin ㄇㄞˋ)

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Min Nan

For pronunciation and definitions of mài – see 莫 (“none; nothing; not anything; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 莫).

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 磨 (“to grind”, SV: ma).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maːj˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maːj˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [maːj˨˩]

Verb

mài • (磨, 埋, 𥓄, 𥕄, 𪿥, 𥓴)

1. to grind (to remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface)