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bais

bais is the plural of bai.

Meaning of bai

Noun (1)

bai (plural bais)

  1. A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
    • One thing about the bais that I hadn't fully taken on board while reading about them was that they tend to be waterlogged because they are usually associated with marshes, streams or springs. […] venturing into the bai, but […] plunging into the bai because […]2012 August 23, Nick Middleton, Surviving Extremes: Ice, Jungle, Sand and Swamp, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 84

Noun (2)

bai (plural bais)

  1. A yellow mist occurring in spring and fall in China and Japan, caused by yellow dust blown from central China.

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Noun (1)

bais (uncountable)

  1. A kind of Filipino mead drink.

Noun (2) capitalized: BAIS

BAIS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Bachelor of Arts in International Studies

Proper noun capitalized: Bais

Bais

  1. A city in Negros Oriental, Philippines.

Questions about bais

What does bais mean?
Bais means a kind of Filipino mead drink.
What is bais the plural of?
Bais is the plural of bai.
What part of speech is bais?
Bais can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near bais in the dictionary

  1. Bairnsdale
  2. Bairnsdalian
  3. bairnwort
  4. Bairs
  5. Bairstow
  6. bais
  7. baisa
  8. Baisakh
  9. Baisakhi
  10. baisas
  11. Baisden

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bais (page history and authors); BAIS (page history and authors); Bais (page history and authors); bai (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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