English Explanatory Dictionary

vai

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Initialism of verb animate intransitive: an intransitive verb that agrees with an animate subject.
noun
  1. Alternative spelling of bhai.
noun
  1. An ethnic group of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
name
  1. The Niger-Congo language of the Vai people of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
noun
  1. Alternative form of vai (“verb inanimate intransitive”).

Word forms

vai vais

Etymology

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

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