pi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pi"

Translingual

Symbol

pi

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Pali.

English

Ancient Greek Alphabet

omicron

rho
Π π
Ancient Greek: πεῖ
Wikipedia article on pi
This mosaic is outside the mathematics building at the Technische Universität Berlin.
When a circle's diameter is 1 unit, its circumference is π units.
When a circle's radius is 1 unit, its circumference is 2π units.

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *pay- (mouth). Doublet of pe. Its mathematical use apparently stems from its use as the first letter in περιφέρεια (periphéreia, periphery; circumference) and was first cited in 1706 in the Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos by William Jones.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paɪ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophone: pie

Noun

pi (countable and uncountable, plural pis)

  1. The 16th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
  2. (mathematics) An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π.
  3. (letterpress typography) Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered.
    Alternative form: pie
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

pi (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle piing, simple past and past participle pied)

  1. (letterpress typography) To spill or mix printing type.
    Alternative form: pie

Adjective

pi (not comparable)

  1. (typography) Not part of the usual font character set; especially, non-Roman type or symbols as opposed to standard alphanumeric Roman type.
    In computing, pi characters may be entered with special key combinations.
Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviations.

Noun

pi

  1. (typography) pica (conventionally, 12 points = 1 pica, 6 picas = 1 inch).
  2. Piaster.

Adjective

pi

  1. Pious.
    • 1927, Magdalen King-Hall, I Think I Remember: Being the Random Recollections of Sir Wickham Woolicomb, an Ordinary English Snob and Gentleman:
      Our Major was "Cherub" Cheeseman, noted for his foul language. I am afraid he lost a tidy little legacy that he was expecting from his aunt, the Dowager Lady Shuttlecock (a very "pi" old lady), through this same habit of his.
    • 1972, Anya Seton, Green Darkness, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
      “Those are very 'pi' sentiments. Was a preacher in Staffordshire— I was raised chapel, though've tried to forget it—he talked that way... redemption and the lot.”
    • 1994, Roger Gard, Jane Austen's Novels: The Art of Clarity, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 101:
      In Sense and Sensibility, as even you might agree, there's at least the danger of a rather pi moral framework clamping down on the spontaneous fun and leaving the sisters to survive - a bit drearily - on the periphery of a mean world.

See also

  • pi-jaw (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

Abinomn

Noun

pi

  1. (anatomy) gall bladder

Pronoun

pi

  1. you (more than two)

Albanian

Etymology

From Old Albanian pii, from Proto-Albanian *pīja, from Proto-Indo-European *pih₃-, *peh₃- probably via the reduplicated form *píph₃eti; compare Greek πίνω (píno), Serbo-Croatian pìti, Italian bere. Orel compares the similarity between Proto-Albanian *pīja and Proto-Slavic *pijǫ;[1] Tomaschek compares Tosk pirë/Gheg pinë with Thracian πίνον (pínon, beer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pi]

Verb

  1. to drink, to suck
  2. to smoke (in use with duhan (tobacco, cigarettes))
  3. to take (in use with drogë (drug(s)) and medicinë (medicine))
    A pi drogë?Do you take drugs?
    A i pive ilaçet?Did you take (your) medicine?

Usage notes

  1. (Standard, Tosk) ai pi - he drinks / he is a drinker
    (Standard, Tosk) (unë) nuk pi duhan - I do not smoke
    (Gheg) ai pin - he drinks / he is a drinker
    (Gheg) (unë) nuk pi duhan - I do not smoke

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • pije, pija f
  • pijane f, pijan m
  • pijanece f, pijanec m
  • pijanike f, pijanik m
  • pirashe f, pirash m
  • pijetore f, pijetorja f
  • pijeshitse f, pijeshitës m
  • pijshëm, papijshëm

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “pi”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 324-325

Ambonese Malay

Alternative forms

Etymology

Clipping of pigi.

Pronunciation

Verb

pi

  1. (intransitive) to go
    Beta pi ka bendar.I'm going to the city.

References

  • D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin per. Compare Romanian pe.

Preposition

pi

  1. on

Berawan

Noun

pi

  1. (Central, West) water

References

  • Robert Blust, 2000, Low Vowel Fronting in Northern Sarawak, Oceanic Linguistics, 39:2, pp. 285-319, page 316
  • Robert Blust, 2006, The Origin of the Kelabit Voiced Aspirates: A Historical Hypothesis Revisited, Oceanic Linguistics, 45:2, pages 311-338

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan pin, from Latin pīnus, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *poi- (sap, juice).

Noun

pi m (plural pins)

  1. pine; evergreen tree of the genus Pinus
  2. pinewood
Derived terms

Noun

pi f (plural pis)

  1. Pi; the Greek letter Π (lowercase π)

References

  • “pi” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chachi

Noun

pi

  1. water
  2. river

References

  • Peter W. Stahl, Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics (2006, →ISBN, page 253
  • Randall Q. Huber, Robert B. Reed, Comparative vocabulary, page 86, 1992

Classical Nahuatl

Verb

pi ()

  1. (transitive) To pluck

References

  • J. Richard Andrews (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin pes, pedem.

Noun

pi m (plural pič)

  1. foot

Danish

Proper noun

pi

  1. pi (number)
  2. pi (letter)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî). Doublet of pe, pee (Hebrew letter).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: pi
  • Rhymes: -i

Noun

pi f or m (plural pi's, diminutive pi'tje n)

  1. pi (Greek letter)
  2. (mathematics) pi (number)

Further reading

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi/

Noun

pi m (plural pi)

  1. pi (Greek letter)
  2. (mathematics) pi

Conjunction

pi

  1. (Quebec, colloquial) Alternative spelling of pis (and)
    • 1963, Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard, page 8:
      "Blanc d’or rouge noir pi toute"
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

Greenlandic

Root

pi

  1. Means nothing in particular.

Usage notes

See note at su.

Derived terms

Guambiano

Noun

pi

  1. water
  2. river

References

  • Beatriz Vásquez de Ruiz, La predicación en guambiano (Colciencias, 1988)
  • Randall Q. Huber, Robert B. Reed, Comparative vocabulary, page 86, 1992

Inuktitut

Noun

pi

  1. Latin spelling of (pi)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi/
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation:

Etymology 1

From Latin (the name of the letter P).

Noun

pi f (invariable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.; pee
See also

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî, the name of the Greek letter Π).

Noun

pi m (invariable)

  1. the name of the Greek-script letter Π/π; pi
  2. (mathematics) Synonym of pi greco
Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

pi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of
  2. Rōmaji transcription of

Kari'na

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pitupô.

Pronunciation

Noun

pi (possessed pìpo)

  1. skin
  2. bark
  3. peel, rind
  4. outer wall (of a basket)
  5. skin, membrane (of a drum)

References

  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 344
  • Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “pipo”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 376; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes, Paris, 1956, page 367

Kedah Malay

Pronunciation

Verb

pi

  1. Go
    Satgi kalau depa nak pi keluaq dah, habaq kat aku awai sikit noh, satgi tak dan.
    If they are ready to go out, please inform me earlier, so that I won't be late.
    Hang ni oghang kata pa pun bukan nak dengaq, mampuih pi kat hang la.
    You never listen, just go to hell
  2. Do
    Hangpa pi bedak elok-elok bagi sama banyak buah moktan tu, satgi baghu tak berkelai.
    You should split the rambutans equally between yourselves, then you won't have to fight over it.
    Awat yang hang pi pukui dia, satgi dia bawak mai geng pi taboh hang pulak, lagu mana?
    Why did you hit him, don't you afraid he might summon his gang to beat you up?

See also

Lango (Uganda)

Noun

  1. water

References

  • Michael P. Noonan, A Grammar of Lango [Uganda]

Luo

Noun

pi

  1. water

References

  • Benny Garell Blount, Acquisition of Language by Luo Children (1969), page 57
  • Roy Lawrence Stafford, An elementary Luo grammar, page 24, 1967

Mandarin

Romanization

pi

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .
  3. Nonstandard spelling of .
  4. Nonstandard spelling of .

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.

Marshallese

Etymology

Borrowed from English bee.

Pronunciation

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [pʲi]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /pʲij/
  • Bender phonemes: {piy}

Noun

pi

  1. bee

References

Mokilese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi/

Noun

pi

  1. vagina
    Synonym: pwapwahk

Declension

Norman

Alternative forms

  • pyid (continental Normandy)
  • pid (Jersey, Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French pié, from Latin pēs, pedis, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

Noun

pi m (plural pis)

  1. (Sark, anatomy) foot

Nuer

Noun

pi

  1. water

References

  • Joseph Pasquale Crazzolara, Outlines of a Nuer grammar, page 28, 1933

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Enclitic form of api.

Particle

pi

  1. an emphatic particle

Derived terms

Conjunction

pi

  1. also, even so
  2. even

References

  • Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “pi”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Pirahã

Alternative forms

Noun

pi

  1. water[3]
  2. thorn[1]

References

  1. Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Volume 1, 1986
  2. Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 96 (as , ipé)
  3. “Pirahã Dictionary/ Dicionário Mura-Pirahã”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), 2011 February 2 (last accessed), archived from the original on 2 February 2011

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Syllabification: pi

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pi

  1. cheep, used to imitate the sound made by a chick

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî), from Phoenician 𐤐 (p‬ /⁠pē⁠/).

Noun

pi n (indeclinable)

  1. pi (Greek letter Π, π)
  2. (mathematics) pi (irrational mathematical constant)

Further reading

  • pi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî).

Noun

pi m (plural pis)

  1. pi (name of the Greek letter Π, π)

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Alternative forms

Interjection

pi

  1. bleep (high-pitched sound)

Quechua

Pronoun

pi

  1. who

Romagnol

Etymology

Inherited from Latin plēnus (full).

Adjective

pi m (feminine pina, masculine plural pi, feminine plural pini)

  1. full

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek πι (pi).

Noun

pi m (uncountable)

  1. pi

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pîː/

Noun

 n (Cyrillic spelling пи̑)

  1. pi (Greek letter)
  2. pi (mathematical constant)

Shilluk

Noun

pi

  1. water

References

  • B. Kohnen, Shilluk grammar : with a little English-Shilluk dictionary, Missioni Africane, Vérone, Italie, 317 pages, page 313, 1933

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /píː/

Noun

 m inan

  1. pi (Greek letter)
  2. pi (mathematical constant)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing.
gen. sing. píja
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
píja píji
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
píja píjev píjev
dative
(dajȃlnik)
píju píjema píjem
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
píja píje
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
píju píjih píjih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
píjem píjema píji

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi/ [ˈpi]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Syllabification: pi

Noun

pi f (plural píes)

  1. pi; the Greek letter Π, π

Further reading

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu [Term?].

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Particle

pi

  1. Suffix used as an alternative to gani to more specifically say "which" of a known noun class.
    Anakaa nyumba ipi?Which house does he live in?

Inflection

See also

  • gani
  • -po: definite place indicator
  • -ko: indefinite place indicator
  • -mo: "inside" of a definite place indicator

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iː

Noun

pi n

  1. (mathematics) pi, a constant
  2. pi; a Greek letter

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English pee, the English name of the letter P/p.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi/, [pɪ]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: pi

Noun

pi (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒ)

  1. the name of the Latin-script letter P/p, in the Filipino alphabet
    Synonyms: (in the Abakada alphabet) pa, (in the Abecedario) pe

See also

Further reading

  • pi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tocharian B

Particle

pi

  1. really, indeed (used to emphasize questions and commands)

Totoro

Noun

pi

  1. water

References

Tsafiki

Noun

pi

  1. water

References

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pii, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *piŋe.

Noun

pi

  1. tooth (protrusion of certain objects, e.g. a saw, rake)

Inflection

Inflection of pi (inflection type 13/ma)
nominative sing. pi
genitive sing. pin
partitive sing. pid
partitive plur. pid
singular plural
nominative pi pid
accusative pin pid
genitive pin piden
partitive pid pid
essive-instructive pin pin
translative pikš pikš
inessive piš piš
elative pišpäi pišpäi
illative pihe pihe
adessive pil pil
ablative pilpäi pilpäi
allative pile pile
abessive pita pita
comitative pinke pidenke
prolative pidme pidme
approximative I pinno pidenno
approximative II pinnoks pidennoks
egressive pinnopäi pidennopäi
terminative I pihesai pihesai
terminative II pilesai pilesai
terminative III pissai
additive I pihepäi pihepäi
additive II pilepäi pilepäi

References

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Noun

pi f (plural piau)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

Mutation

This word cannot be mutated.

See also

West Makian

Pronunciation

Verb

pi

  1. (ditransitive) to give
    Synonym: pula
    nipi de te(you) give me (some) tea!
  2. (ditransitive) to sell
    Synonym: pula

Conjugation

Conjugation of pi (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tepi mepi api
2nd person nepi fepi
3rd person inanimate ipi depi
animate
imperative nipi, pi fipi, pi

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics

Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k͡pí/

Noun

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

See also

Zou

Etymology 1

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *puj (augmentative marker).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi˧/

Adjective

pi

  1. big

Noun

pi

  1. leader

Etymology 2

From Northern Proto-Kuki-Chin *bii.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi˧/

Noun

pi

  1. thatch

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, pages 40, 45
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