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vai

vai is the initialism of verb animate intransitive.

vai is the alternative spelling of bhai.

Meaning of bhai

Noun

bhai (plural bhais)

  1. friend, dude, man
  2. brother

Noun (1) capitalized: Vai

Vai pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An ethnic group of Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Proper noun capitalized: Vai

Vai

  1. The Niger-Congo language of the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Noun (2) capitalized: VAI

VAI (plural VAIs)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of vai (“verb inanimate intransitive”).

Forms of vai

alternative formVAI
pluralvais
pluralVAIs

Origin of vai

Transliteration of Bengali ভাই (bhai). Doublet of bhai; see there for more doublets.

Questions about vai

What does vai mean?
Vai means an ethnic group of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
What is vai the initialism of?
Vai is the initialism of verb animate intransitive.
What part of speech is vai?
Vai can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of vai?
The plural of vai is vais.

Words near vai in the dictionary

  1. Vahle
  2. Vahles
  3. vahlkampfiid
  4. vahlkampfiids
  5. Vahram
  6. vai
  7. Vaibhasika
  8. Vaibhav
  9. Vaid
  10. Vaidalai
  11. Vaideeni

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vai (page history and authors); Vai (page history and authors); VAI (page history and authors); bhai (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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