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dai

/daɪ/

dai noun: a wet nurse; a midwife.

Noun (1)

dai (plural dais)

  1. (Bangladesh, India, North, Pakistan) A wet nurse; a midwife.
    • Kausalya, she learnt, was his dai, the one who had breast-fed and looked after him.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 72

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Dai

Dai

  1. A diminutive of the male given name David, from Welsh.

Noun (2) capitalized: Dai

Dai (plural Dais or Dai)

  1. An ethnic group of China, one of the 55 officially recognized minorities.
  2. A member of the ethnic group.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Dai

Dai

  1. (historical) A small northern state of ancient China.
  2. (historical) Various other kingdoms and princely appenages of imperial China named for the ancient state.
  3. (historical) A prefecture of Shanxi under imperial China.
  4. A county of Xinzhou Prefecture in Shanxi, China.
    • Tian Yongsheng from Shanxi province is desperate to find a way to relieve the chest pain which has haunted him for years.[…]
      He is well aware what will happen if he is not treated. Many of his neighbours in Dai county - all coal miners - have died of the disease after suffering great pain.
      'In the...2004 July 30, Josephine Ma, “Coal miners face long, painful death”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2023
    • One of the most remarkable features of the redemptive societies was their continuing ability to draw members of the CCP and the Youth League into their ranks. In 1950 in Shanxi, 18 percent of the 3,000 Communists in Dai County were members of the Yiguandao, which had affiliates in 74 percent of...2015, S. A. Smith, “Redemptive Religious Societies and the Communist State, 1949 to the 1980s”, in Jeremy Brown, Matthew D. Johnson, editors, Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of...
    Synonyms:
    Daixian, Tai-hsien

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Dai

Dai

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (4) capitalized: DAI

DAI

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of Dragon Age: Inquisition.
    Synonyms:
    DA3

dai meaning in Telugu and Malayalam

dai in Telugu

డాయ్

dai in Malayalam

ദായി

Synonyms of dai

Forms of dai

Noun
pluraldais
pluralDais
pluralDai
Proper noun
alternative formTai

Origin of dai

Borrowed from Hindi दाई (dāī), from Sanskrit.

Borrowed from Welsh Dai.

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 傣 (Dǎi), borrowed from a Tai language. Doublet of Tai and Thai. Compare Thai ไท (tai).

Phrases with dai

Words that rhyme with dai

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Questions about dai

What does dai mean?
Dai means a wet nurse; a midwife.
What is dai in Telugu?
Dai in Telugu is డాయ్. See Dai meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is dai?
Dai can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dai?
Dai is pronounced /daɪ/.
What is the plural of dai?
The plural of dai is dais.

Words near dai in the dictionary

  1. Dahurian larches
  2. Dahurians
  3. Dahurs
  4. dahus
  5. Dahut
  6. dai
  7. Dai Di
  8. dai ji
  9. Dai Nam
  10. dai pai dong
  11. dai pai dongs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dai (page history and authors); Dai (page history and authors); DAI (page history and authors); dai (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dai (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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