"Tai" meaning in English

See Tai in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /taɪ/ Audio: en-us-tie.ogg [US], en-au-tie.ogg [Australia]
Rhymes: -aɪ Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Tai
  1. A former settlement in Wugong, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China. Categories (place): Historical settlements, Places in China, Places in Shaanxi
    Sense id: en-Tai-en-name-EIOPDq0Q
  2. A local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria. Categories (place): Places in Nigeria
    Sense id: en-Tai-en-name-vxcT-ctM Categories (other): Local government areas of Nigeria
  3. A female given name from Chinese. Categories (topical): English female given names, English given names
    Sense id: en-Tai-en-name-tEnW8goz
  4. A branch of the Tai-Kadai language family, including Thai, Lao, Shan, and Zhuang.
    Sense id: en-Tai-en-name-fPeYhUmU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 15 11 25 18 6 16
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name

Etymology: From Mandarin 代 (Dài) Wade–Giles romanization: Tai⁴. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn|^代}} Mandarin 代 (Dài), {{bor|en|cmn-wadegiles|-}} Wade–Giles Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Tai
  1. Alternative form of Dai Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Dai
    Sense id: en-Tai-en-name-qGwKTZAw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Proper name

Etymology: From Mandarin 戴 (Dài) Wade–Giles romanization: Tai⁴, Cantonese: daai³. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn|^戴}} Mandarin 戴 (Dài), {{bor|en|cmn-wadegiles|-}} Wade–Giles Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Tai
  1. A surname. Related terms: Tai Hu
    Sense id: en-Tai-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

IPA: /taɪ/ Audio: en-us-tie.ogg [US], en-au-tie.ogg [Australia] Forms: Tais [plural], Tai [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪ Head templates: {{en-noun|s|Tai}} Tai (plural Tais or Tai)
  1. A descendant of speakers of a common proto-Tai language, including subpopulations which no longer speak a Tai language. Translations (Translations): ဂုံ (gum) (Burmese), thaikieli (Finnish), taï (French), តៃ (tay) (Khmer), တႆး (tái) (Shan), ไท (tai) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-Tai-en-noun-n5PkUBes
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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        "2": "Tai"
      },
      "expansion": "Tai (plural Tais or Tai)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1901, Census of India",
          "text": "The Tais first appeared in history in Yunnan, and from thence they migrated into Upper Burma. The earliest swarms appear to have entered that tract about two thousand years ago, and were small in number.",
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        }
      ],
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    },
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    },
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    },
    {
      "homophone": "tie"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Ty"
    },
    {
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/En-us-tie.ogg/En-us-tie.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/En-us-tie.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2f/En-au-tie.ogg/En-au-tie.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/En-au-tie.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "gum",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "ဂုံ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "thaikieli"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "taï"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "tay",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "តៃ"
    },
    {
      "code": "shn",
      "lang": "Shan",
      "roman": "tái",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "တႆး"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "tai",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "ไท"
    }
  ],
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    "Tai"
  ],
  "word": "Tai"
}

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    "English terms borrowed from Wade–Giles",
    "English terms derived from Mandarin",
    "English terms derived from Wade–Giles",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
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      "args": {},
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    }
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          "word": "Dai"
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1979, Meishi Tsai, Contemporary Chinese Novels and Short Stories, 1949-1974: An Annotated Bibliography, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 142",
          "text": "Five short stories concern land reform, elections in the border region, and anti-Japanese activities:[...]\ne) “Feng-pao Tai-hsien-chʻeng” 風暴代縣城 (Storms in Tai County). A twenty-year-old anti-Japanese hero does not surrender even when he is captured and executed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Chʻien, edited by William Nienhauser, The Grand Scribe's Records, Indiana University Press, →OCLC, page 114",
          "text": "Kuang-wu 廣武 lay in the southwestern part of today's Tai County 代縣, Shansi; Wu and Lu, 93.3392n.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History, →OCLC, page 190",
          "text": "Kou-chu Mountains: today called Yen-men Mountains, a mountain range located to the southeast of Ma-yi, near present-day Tai county, in Shansi (Chung-kuo li-shih ti-t'u chi, 2:17-18, 3-10).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Dai"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Dai",
          "Dai#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Tai"
  ],
  "word": "Tai"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Mandarin",
    "English terms borrowed from Wade–Giles",
    "English terms derived from Mandarin",
    "English terms derived from Wade–Giles",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
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    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "^戴"
      },
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      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "cmn-wadegiles",
        "3": "-"
      },
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      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
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  "pos": "name",
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    {
      "word": "Tai Hu"
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "2017 November 7, Lin Chia-nan, “Kerry logistics accused of work-related injury cover-up”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-06, Taiwan News, page 3",
          "text": "The company on Nov. 3 last year asked an employee surnamed Tai (戴) to deliver 10 barrels of silane — a flammable alkaline substance — from Pingtung County’s Chaojhou Township (潮州) to Sinyuan Township (新園) without telling him what the cargo would be, Tseng said at a news conference on behalf of Tai, adding that the company did not even have a license to deliver the dangerous substance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A surname."
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    }
  ],
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    "Tai"
  ],
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}

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