rai

Yapese [Term?]

rai (countable and uncountable, plural rai)

1. stone money

• rai stone

rai (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of raï (“musical style”)

rai (countable and uncountable, plural rai)

1. A unit of area used in Thailand that is equal, in modern times, to 1,600 square metres (16 ares, 0.16 hectares, 0.3954 acres).

• 'air, ARI, Ari, IAR, IRA, Ira, RIA, air, ria

• IPA^(key): /raj/

rai (Bengali script রায় or রাই)

1. reed

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

From Old French rai, from Latin radius.

rai m (plural rais)

1. ray

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈraj]

Originally a Western Catalan dialectal form of raig.

rai m (plural rais)

1. raft

• raier

Unknown.

rai

1. that's of no importance
2. tu rai!, don't worry!
3. això rai!, no problem!

• It is a particle that it is always put after another word (noun, pronoun, infinitive, etc) to make a complete proposition without verb in form of exclamation indicating that a thing does not matter, is the evidence out of the case treated or that it is presupposed.

• “rai” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

rai

1. sight

rai

1. to see

Inherited from Old French rai, inherited from Latin radius. Doublet of radius, a borrowing. Unrelated to raie.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛ/
• Homophones: raie, rets

rai m (plural rais)

1. ray, beam (of light etc.)

   Synonym: rayon

2. spoke (of wheel)

• rayon

• radiation
• radieux
• irradier

• “rai”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• air, ira

From Latin radius.

rai m (plural rais)

1. ray, beam
2. spoke
3. radius

Possibly cognate with Duwai r̃ùwà (“life”).

• IPA^(key): /ɽâi/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɽâi]

râi m (plural rāyukā̀, possessed form râin)

1. life
2. spirit, mind
3. hope, salvation
4. prosperity

Borrowed from Old Occitan rai, from Latin radius. Doublet of raggio, razzo, and radio, the first two of which were inherited from Latin, while the last was borrowed from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈraj/
• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: rài

rai m pl (plural only)

1. (literary) rays
2. (literary, figurative) looks
3. (literary, figurative) eyes

• rai in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “rai”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati

• -ari, -irà, Ari, ari, ira, ria, rià

rai

1. Rōmaji transcription of らい
2. Rōmaji transcription of ライ

• Carakan: ꦫꦲꦶ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daqih, compare Malay dahi and Kavalan zais.

rai (krama ngoko rai, krama inggil pasuryan)

1. face

   Synonyms: dhapur, muka, rupa, wajah

• The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015) “rai”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN

rai

1. mussel

rai

1. rye

rai

1. rye

From Old French rai, from Latin radius (“spoke”).

rai m (plural rais)

1. (Jersey, cycling, etc.) spoke

From Latin rādius.

rai oblique singular, m (oblique plural rais, nominative singular rais, nominative plural rai)

1. beam; ray (of light)
   • late 12th century, anonymous author, “La Folie de Tristan de Berne”, in Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 314, line 202:

     li rais sor sa face luisoit

     the ray was shining on his face

• Bourguignon: rai
• → English: ray
• French: rai
• Norman: rai

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic рай (raj), from Proto-Slavic *rajь, borrowed from Iranian, from Proto-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *raHíš, from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”).

• IPA^(key): /raj/

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rai n (plural raiuri)

1. eden
2. paradise

• paradis, cer

• retg (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)
• rètg (Surmiran)
• raig (Puter)

From Latin rēx, rēgem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

rai m (plural rais)

1. (Vallader) king

Borrowed from English ride.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrai/ [ˈrai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai
• Syllabification: rai

rai m (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador, Mexico) ride, lift

   Synonyms: aventón, (Spain) vuelta en coche

   No te preocupés: mi amiga me va a dar rai.

   Don't worry: my friend's gonna give me a ride.

• “rai”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Arabic رَأْي (raʔy).

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rai (n class, plural rai)

1. opinion, view

From *dari, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀəq, compare Ilocano daga.

rai

1. earth
2. land

Borrowed from Russian рай (raj).

rai

1. paradise, heaven

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

• IPA^(key): /rai̯/

rai

1. Soft mutation of rhai.