sai

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sai"

Translingual

Symbol

sai

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for South American Indian languages.

English

Etymology 1

From Japanese 釵 (sai).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: sigh, psi, xi, scye, Si

Noun

sai (plural sai)

1. A handheld weapon with three prongs, used in some Oriental martial arts.

See also

• Sai (weapon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Compare Portuguese sahi, from Tupian sai (“monkey”).

Noun

sai

1. A sajou; a capuchin (monkey).

Further reading

• “sai”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “sai”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Hokkien 屎 (sái, “excrement; poop”).

Pronunciation

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /saɪ˦˨/

Noun

sai (uncountable)

1. (Singapore, Malaysia, colloquial, vulgar) shit
   • 1998 February 10, Thye Hoon Lin, “SM Lee was right - Johor is notorious for muggings!”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

     […] the employer of the unfortunate maid that was forced to makan sai are indonesians.

   • 1998 July 9, SimiSar, “[sangkancil] New HK airport faces barrage of criticism (fwd)”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

     It is Chek Lap Kok ho lang. You should makan sai. Are you an Orang Laut trying to speak Chinese?

   • 2003 April 18, Bone Toad, “Christ won”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

     go and take your morning shower and wash your arse with water and soap after pang sai

See also

• saw sam sai

Anagrams

• ais, A.S.I., Asi, AIS, a-Si, is-a, sia, Ais, Sia, Isa, A.I.s, Isa., IAS, ISA, ASI, IAs, AIs, A. S. I., SIA

Basque

Noun

sai anim

1. vulture

Estonian

Etymology 1

Cognate to Livonian sōja (“white bread”). Possibly a derivation from saama. As white bread was often offered during weddings, an initial compound of saialeib would have meant something along the lines of "receiver's bread, wedding bread".

Noun

sai (genitive saia, partitive saia)

1. white bread

Declension

Declension of sai (type sai)

	singular	plural
nominative	sai	saiad
genitive	saia	saiade
partitive	saia	saiu / saiasid
illative	saia / saiasse	saiadesse
inessive	saias	saiades
elative	saiast	saiadest
allative	saiale	saiadele
adessive	saial	saiadel
ablative	saialt	saiadelt
translative	saiaks	saiadeks
terminative	saiani	saiadeni
essive	saiana	saiadena
abessive	saiata	saiadeta
comitative	saiaga	saiadega

Derived terms

• saiake (“pastry”)

Descendants

• → Ingrian: saija

See also

• leib

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sai

1. third-person singular past indicative of saama

   Ta sai kingituse. ― He got a present.

Further reading

• “sai”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “sai”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• sai in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑi̯/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝i̯]
• Rhymes: -ɑi
• Hyphenation^(key): sai

Verb

sai

1. third-person singular past indicative of saada

   Hän sai lahjan. ― He got a present.

Anagrams

• -ias, -isa, ais

Galician

Verb

sai

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of sair:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Gothic

Romanization

sai

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌹

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of sai – see 獅 (“lion”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 獅).

For pronunciation and definitions of sai – see 西 (“west; western; occidental; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 西).

Italian

Verb

sai

1. second-person singular present indicative of sapere

   Non lo sai? ― Don't you know (it)?

   Sai il mio nome. ― You know my name.

   Tu lo sai! ― You do (know it)!

Noun

sai pl

1. plural of saio

Anagrams

• -asi, sia

Japanese

Romanization

sai

1. Rōmaji transcription of さい
2. Rōmaji transcription of サイ

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese sair, either directly or from the third-person conjugation sai. Compare cai for a similar phenomenon.

Verb

sai

1. to go out, to leave

   Quiada já sai ― The maid isn't working here anymore (literally, “The maid has left”)

   Cedo-cedo sai di casa ― He/she left home very young/very early

2. to look like

   Sai di quim? ― Who does he/she look like?

Mandarin

Romanization

sai

1. Nonstandard spelling of sāi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of sǎi.
3. Nonstandard spelling of sài.

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English

Noun

sai

1. Alternative form of assay

Naxi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-hjwəj-t.

Noun

sai

1. blood

References

• Naxi Dictionary by T.M. Pinson, Lijiang 2012

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• seede (Mooring)
• sii (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian sidza, sega, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną. Cognates include West Frisian sizze, Danish sige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [siː]

Verb

sai

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to say

Conjugation

Conjugation of sai (Föhr-Amrum dialect)

infinitive I	sai
infinitive II	(tu) saien
past participle	saad
imperative singular	sai
imperative plural	sai’m
	present	past
1st singular	sai	saad
2nd singular	saist	saadst
3rd singular	sait	saad
plural	sai	saad
	perfect	pluperfect
1st singular	haa saad	hed saad
2nd singular	heest saad	hedst saad
3rd singular	hee saad	hed saad
plural	haa saad	hed saad
	future (skel)	future (wel)
1st singular	skal sai	wal sai
2nd singular	skääl sai	wääl sai
3rd singular	skal sai	wal sai
plural	skel sai	wel sai

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• sae, say (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaj/ [ˈsaɪ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsaj/

• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: sai

Verb

sai

1. inflection of sair:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Shoshone

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɪ/

Noun

sai

1. temporary bridge (e.g. a log lying across a stream).

References

• shoshoniproject.utah.edu

Solon

Noun

sai

1. tea

References

• Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Dagur Elements in Solon Evenki, 2012.

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsa.i]

Verb

sai

1. (intransitve) to blow

Conjugation

Conjugation of sai

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tosai	fosai	misai
2nd person		nosai	nisai
3rd person	masculine	osai	isai yosai (archaic)
	feminine	mosai
	neuter	isai

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sai

1. wedding

Inflection

Inflection of sai (inflection type 7/pedai)
nominative sing.	sai
genitive sing.	sajan
partitive sing.	sajad
partitive plur.	sajid
	singular	plural
nominative	sai	sajad
accusative	sajan	sajad
genitive	sajan	sajiden
partitive	sajad	sajid
essive-instructive	sajan	sajin
translative	sajaks	sajikš
inessive	sajas	sajiš
elative	sajaspäi	sajišpäi
illative	sajaha	sajihe
adessive	sajal	sajil
ablative	sajalpäi	sajilpäi
allative	sajale	sajile
abessive	sajata	sajita
comitative	sajanke	sajidenke
prolative	sajadme	sajidme
approximative I	sajanno	sajidenno
approximative II	sajannoks	sajidennoks
egressive	sajannopäi	sajidennopäi
terminative I	sajahasai	sajihesai
terminative II	sajalesai	sajilesai
terminative III	sajassai	—
additive I	sajahapäi	sajihepäi
additive II	sajalepäi	sajilepäi

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “свадьба”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [saːj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂaːj˧˧] ~ [saːj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʂaːj˧˧] ~ [saːj˧˧]

• Audio (Saigon):

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Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 差 (“difference; discrepancy”).

Adjective

sai

1. (of people or things people do) not right, correct or proper; wrong, incorrect, improper, inaccurate, imprecise, erroneous, etc.

   Antonym: đúng

   làm sai ― to get something wrong or do something wrong; to err

   Làm sai thì phải nhận.

   When you're wrong, own your mistake.

   Tao (làm) sai hai câu.

   I got two answers wrong.

   Em biết em sai, mong anh tha thứ.

   I know I was wrong / what I did was wrong, please forgive me.

   sai số ― a margin of error

See also

• trật

Verb

sai

1. to give an order; to order

   Có giỏi thì làm, đừng có đứng đó sai người ta !

   Do it if you think you're so good, don't just stand there bossing others around!

   • 1920, Trần Trọng Kim, Việt Nam sử lược‎^[2], volume II, Trung Bắc Tân Văn, page 130:

     Vua Càn-long nghe lời tâu ấy sai Tôn sĩ Nghị khởi quân bốn tỉnh Quảng-đông, Quảng-tây, Quí-châu, Vân-nam, đem sang đánh Tây-sơn.

     When the Qianlong Emperor heard this petition, he ordered Sun Shiyi to take the troops of the four provinces of Guangdong, Guangzhou, Guizhou, and Yunnan and bring them to fight the Tây Sơn.

Derived terms

• sai bảo
• sai khiến
• tay sai

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

sai • (𡗂, 差, 絺, 縒)

1. (of trees) fruitful

   sai quả/trái ― fruitful

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [saj]

Noun

sai

1. penis

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sai”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /θaːi˨˦/
• Tone numbers: sai¹
• Hyphenation: sai

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *ʑaːjᴬ (“male”). Cognate with Thai ชาย (chaai), Northern Thai ᨩᩣ᩠ᨿ, Lao ຊາຍ (sāi), Lü ᦋᦻ (tsaay), Shan ၸၢႆး (tsáai), Tai Nüa ᥓᥣᥭᥰ (tsäay), Ahom 𑜋𑜩 (chay).

Noun

sai (Sawndip forms 𪟞 or 仔 or 哉 or 腮 or 偲, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

1. male; man; boy; fellow

Derived terms

• bouxsai
• lansai
• lwgsai

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *saːjᴬ (“cord; string”). Cognate with Thai สาย (sǎai), Lao ສາຍ (sāi).

Noun

sai (Sawndip forms 𧛷 or 緦 or 腮 or 哉 or 𬗹 or 彩, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

1. band; belt; ribbon

Derived terms

• saidox
• saidoengz
• saigvaq
• saigyoeng
• saiheux
• saihoz
• saihwet
• sailwed
• saimaecik
• saimba
• sainyouh
• sairaemx
• saisengj
• saivaq

Etymology 3

Verb

sai (Sawndip forms 浉 or 筛, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

1. to waste; to squander
2. to lose (through damage or death)

Etymology 4

Verb

sai (Sawndip form 浉, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

1. to pour (wine)

Etymology 5

Verb

sai (Sawndip forms 㩙 or 师, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

1. to saw (wood)

Etymology 6

Verb

sai (Sawndip form 𡧳, 1957–1982 spelling sai)

1. (dialectal, of flowers) to bloom