English Explanatory Dictionary

dai

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A wet nurse; a midwife.
name
  1. A diminutive of the male given name David, from Welsh.
noun
  1. An ethnic group of China, one of the 55 officially recognized minorities.
  2. A member of the ethnic group.
name
  1. A small northern state of ancient China.
  2. Various other kingdoms and princely appenages of imperial China named for the ancient state.
  3. A prefecture of Shanxi under imperial China.
  4. A county of Xinzhou Prefecture in Shanxi, China.
name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. Initialism of Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Pronunciation

/daɪ/ dī

Word forms

dai dais Tai

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi दाई (dāī), from Sanskrit.

Synonyms

Daizhou Taichow Tai-chou Daixian Tai-hsien DA3

Related words

ao dai dai ji dai pai dong siew dai
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