Word.ws English Dictionary

cumai

cumai noun: a construction method for brazing steel sheets together by sandwiching copper sheets between them and performing an ersatz forge weld, for making Japanese-style blade steel. This method is used to add ornamental copper accents into forge-worked steel, such as a copper wave in a display blade.

Noun

cumai (countable and uncountable, plural cumai)

  1. (uncountable) A construction method for brazing steel sheets together by sandwiching copper sheets between them and performing an ersatz forge weld, for making Japanese-style blade steel. This method is used to add ornamental copper accents into forge-worked steel, such as a copper wave in a display blade.
  2. (countable) A metal sandwich made by such a construction method

Forms of cumai

pluralcumai

Origin of cumai

From translingual Cu (copper) + Japanese 枚 (“まい, mai”) (sheet). Modeled after gomai (“5 sheets”) and sanmai (“3 sheets”).

Questions about cumai

What does cumai mean?
Cumai means a construction method for brazing steel sheets together by sandwiching copper sheets between them and performing an ersatz forge weld, for making Japanese-style blade steel. This method is used to add ornamental copper accents into forge-worked steel, such as a copper wave in a display blade.
What part of speech is cumai?
Cumai is a noun.
What is the plural of cumai?
The plural of cumai is cumai.

Words near cumai in the dictionary

  1. cumacean
  2. cumaceans
  3. Cumae
  4. Cumaean
  5. Cumaeans
  6. cumai
  7. cumaldehyde
  8. Cuman
  9. Cumanagoto
  10. Cumanagotos
  11. Cumans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cumai (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cumai.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cumai. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.