English Explanatory Dictionary

bai

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
intj
  1. Eye dialect spelling of bye.
noun
  1. A yellow mist occurring in spring and fall in China and Japan, caused by yellow dust blown from central China.
noun
  1. An ethnic group of China.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. The language of the Bai ethnic group.
name
  1. An island off the coast of Sabah, Malaysia

Word forms

bai bais Bái

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 霾 (bai). First recorded in English in the 1910s.

Related words

cheebai
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