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kai

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New Zealand/kaɪ̯/Canada/kaɪ/

kai noun: food.

Noun

kai (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Food.
    • Actually, I'm not sure I like these new hangis using the foil, it tends to stop the juices getting through to the stones and I reckon the hangi kai is drier to the palate.1995, Graeme Williams, The soc.culture.new-zealand FAQ
    • Got to go now and get some kai.2003, Carmen, “Is there really a censor in NZ?!”, in nz.general (Usenet)

Proper noun capitalized: Kai

Kai

  1. A unisex given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage.
  2. (rare) A female given name of modern usage.

kai meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

kai in Hindi

काई

kai in Tamil

கெய்

kai in Marathi

काई

kai in Urdu

کائی, کای
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kai in Bengali
কাই
kai in Telugu
కై
kai in Punjabi
ਕਾਈ, ਕਾਇ
kai in Gujarati
કાઈ
kai in Odia
କାଇ
kai in Nepali
काइ, काई

Examples of kai in a sentence

  • It looked like the work of time and weather, not yōkai malice.
  • He hadn’t lost a limb, but was a yōkai whose legs fused into a single muscular column.
  • In the first winter, we probably had about 20 peeps showing up for kai.

All 13 example sentences with kai

Origin of kai

Borrowed from Māori kai. Doublet of makan (via Malay) in Malaysian and Singaporean English varieties.

Taken into regular use in the 1990s, with earlier popularity peaks in Scandinavia and Germany. The medieval Danish Kaj is possibly of Roman origin, Latinized as Caius, like the rare medieval English male given name Kay. The German Kai may also derive from a West Frisian pet form of Gerard, Cornelius, Nicholas, or Kampe "warrior". In the U.S. Kai has also been explained as Hawaiian kai (“sea”).

Phrases with kai

Words that rhyme with kai

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Questions about kai

What does kai mean?
Kai means food.
What is kai in Hindi?
Kai in Hindi is काई. See Kai meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is kai?
Kai can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce kai?
Kai is pronounced /kaɪ̯/ (New Zealand).

Words near kai in the dictionary

  1. Kahului
  2. kahuna
  3. kahunas
  4. Kahutara
  5. kahweol
  6. kai
  7. kai kai
  8. Kai Ken
  9. Kai Kens
  10. Kai Tak
  11. kai-kai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kai (page history and authors); Kai (page history and authors); kai (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kai (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kai (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kai (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kai (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kai (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kai (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kai (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kai (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kai (Nepali, 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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