fai

See also: FAI, fái, Fäi, fāi, fa'i, and fā'i

Languages (20)

Translingual

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Aromanian • Asturian • Galician • Italian • Ladin • Li'o • Maybrat • Mizo • Ngadha • Romansh • Samoan • Sardinian • Termanu • Ternate • Tetum • Tokelauan • Welsh • West Makian • Zhuang

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Translingual

Symbol

fai

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Faiwol.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Faiwol terms

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• fae

Etymology

From Albanian faj. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

fai f (plural fãi)

1. fault; sin

Synonyms

• (fault): ftexim, stepsu
• (sin): amãrtii

Asturian

Alternative forms

• fae
• fa (archaic)
• faz (obsolete)
• ḥaz (Eastern)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfai̯/ [ˈfai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai̯
• Syllabification: fai

Verb

fai

1. third-person singular present indicative of facer
2. second-person singular imperative of facer

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faj/

Verb

fai

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

   Por min fai o que quixeres.

   For me do whatever you want.

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

Further reading

• “facer”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “fazer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “facer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.i/
• Rhymes: -ai
• Hyphenation: fài

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

• fa' (imperative)

Verb

fai

1. inflection of fare:
   1. second-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Related terms

• fai da te

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

fai m

1. plural of faio

Anagrams

• AFI, fia, ifa

Ladin

Noun

fai

1. plural of fal

Li'o

Noun

fai

1. woman

References

• P. Sawardo, Struktur bahasa Lio (1987) (fai / ata fai)
• Louise Baird, A Grammar of Kéo: An Austronesian Language of East Nusantara (2002) (fai)

Maybrat

Noun

fai

1. woman

References

• A Grammar of Maybrat: A Language of the Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia (2007)

Mizo

Etymology

Unknown; this word is quite isolated within Kuki-Chin.

Adjective

fai

1. clean (by removing stuff)

Verb

fai

1. to clean out, clear out

Usage notes

This adjective is not used to refer to things being safe for use (e.g. clean water).

Ngadha

Noun

fai

1. woman

References

• Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science (2002): The Ngadha idiom is fai weta, [...] (fai is 'woman' or 'wife')
• Stephanus Djawanai, Ngadha Text Tradition: The Collective Mind of the Ngadha (1983), page 102

Romansh

Etymology

From Latin fidem.

Noun

fai f (plural fais)

1. faith

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fai, from Proto-Oceanic *paʀi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih, from Proto-Austronesian *paʀiS (“stingray”).

Noun

fai

1. stingray

References

• Milner, G.B. (1993), Samoan Dictionary, Auckland: Polynesian Press, →ISBN, page 55

Sardinian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin facere.

Verb

fai (Campidanese)

1. alternative form of fàghere (“to do; make”)

Termanu

Etymology

From Proto-Rote-Meto *fai, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waʀi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *waʀi, from Proto-Austronesian *waʀi. Cognates include Tetum bai and Indonesian hari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfa.i]
• Hyphenation: fa‧i

Noun

fai

1. day, time
   • 1911, J. C. G. Jonker, “Tutui kòde-a nò kue esa”, in Rottineesche teksten met vertaling [Rottinese texts with translation], Leiden: Brill, page 3:

     Faik esa dè kue-a nae kòde-a nae:

     One day, the civet told the monkey:

Inflection

Possessive inflection of fai

singular			plural
1st	2nd	3rd	1st		2nd	3rd
			incl.	excl.
au faing	ò faim	ndi fain	ami faim	ita fain	emi faim	sila fain

References

• J. C. G. Jonker (1908), “Fai”, in Rottineesch-Hollandsch woordenboek [Rottinese-Dutch dictionary]‎^[3], Leiden: Brill, page 120
• Owen Edwards (2021), Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary‎^[4], Australian National University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 148

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfa.i]

Verb

fai

1. (intransitive) to dig

Conjugation

Conjugation of fai

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tofai	fofai	mifai
2nd person		nofai	nifai
3rd person	masculine	ofai	ifai yofai (archaic)
	feminine	mofai
	neuter	ifai

References

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

Tetum

Etymology

From *bayi.

Verb

fai

1. to pound
2. to crash into

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈha.i]
• Hyphenation: fa‧i

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *fai. Cognates include Māori whai and Samoan fai.

Verb

fai

1. (transitive) to do
2. (transitive) to make
3. (transitive) to fetch
4. (transitive) to install
5. (transitive) to repair
6. (transitive) to manufacture
7. (transitive) to be adopted
8. (transitive, of clothes) to wear
9. (transitive, of orders) to give

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *fai. Cognates include Tongan fai and Samoan fai.

Verb

fai

1. (transitive) to rehearse
2. (transitive) to perform

Etymology 3

From Proto-Polynesian *fai. Cognates include Tongan fai and Samoan fai.

Verb

fai

1. (transitive) to be in progress

Etymology 4

Te fai (4.1).

Te fai (5.1).

Te fai (5.2).

From Proto-Polynesian *fai. Cognates include Māori whai and Samoan fai.

Noun

fai

1. whipray of the genus Himantura

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Samoan faʻi.

Noun

fai

1. banana tree
2. banana fruit

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[5], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 51

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vai̯/

Noun

fai

1. soft mutation of bai

Verb

fai

1. soft mutation of bai

Mutation

Mutated forms of bai

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bai	fai	mai	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

West Makian

Etymology 1

Cognate with Ternate hai (“centipede”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.i/

Noun

fai

1. a millipede, milliped

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.i/

Noun

fai

1. shoulder

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.i/

Noun

fai

1. wing

   Synonym: payapaya

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[6], Pacific linguistics (as fáy and fay)

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *hwaːjᴬ (“dam”).

Cognate with Thai ฝาย (fǎai), Northern Thai ᨺᩣ᩠ᨿ, Lao ຝາຍ (fāi), Lü ᦚᦻ (ḟaay), Shan ၽၢႆ (phǎai) or ၾၢႆ (fǎai), Bouyei waail.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /faːi˨˦/
• Tone numbers: fai¹
• Hyphenation: fai

Noun

fai (Sawndip forms 𭎶[2] or 𰄂[2] or ⿰土快[2] or 𱖾[2] or 沸[2] or 𣳢[2] or ⿰氵⿱正⿰正正[2] or ⿰木⿱正⿰正正[2] or 𫮏[2] or ⿰洡𠂢[2] or 湃[2] or 渄[2], 1957–1982 spelling fai)

1. dam