"bai" meaning in English

See bai in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

Head templates: {{en-interj}} bai
  1. (Internet slang) Eye dialect spelling of bye. Tags: Internet, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: bye
    Sense id: en-bai-en-intj-3~4mnVNg Categories (other): English eye dialect
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Forms: bais [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bai (plural bais)
  1. A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
    Sense id: en-bai-en-noun-jSYAwLq~ Categories (other): Pages with entries, English entries with incorrect language header, Wetlands Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 5 4 0 8 1 3 4 4 3 0 0 0 0 4 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 4 0 0 4 5 5 4 1 0 0 2 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 3 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 75 11 Disambiguation of Wetlands: 7 83 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: bais [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 霾 (bai). First recorded in English in the 1910s. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|ja|霾|tr=bai}} Borrowed from Japanese 霾 (bai) Head templates: {{en-noun}} bai (plural bais)
  1. A yellow mist occurring in spring and fall in China and Japan, caused by yellow dust blown from central China. Related terms: cheebai
    Sense id: en-bai-en-noun-IPi3YeRe
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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