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Tai

//taɪ// name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to Thailand wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to the languages of the Thai people wordnet
  3. 3
    of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand or its people wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria.
  2. 2
    An ancient city and former polity under the Xia dynasty in present-day Wugong, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China. historical

    "The first ancestor of Zhou tribe was Hou Ji who originally lived in Tai (today's Wugong of Shaanxi), and duke of Liu, his successor, moved to Bin (today's Bin county of Shaanxi), and then passed down to the lord of Dan.[…] Qi later settled down in Tai (southwest of Wugong county of today's Shaanxi), which was located the center of the fertile land of Weibei Plain.[…] The poem Duke Liu, which only has 6 sections and 234 Chinese characters in total, vividly narrates duke Liu's moving from Tai (today's Wugong county, Shaanxi province) to Bin (today's Binxian county, Shaanxi province) and big events regarding him in a very organized structure."

  3. 3
    Alternative form of Dai. alt-of, alternative

    "Five short stories concern land reform, elections in the border region, and anti-Japanese activities:[...] e) “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."

  4. 4
    A surname.

    "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."

  5. 5
    Abbreviation of Frenchtemps atomique international (“International Atomic Time”), a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard. abbreviation, alt-of
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  1. 6
    A female given name from Chinese.
  2. 7
    A surname from Chinese.
  3. 8
    Initialism of Toshiba America, Inc.. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 9
    A branch of the Tai-Kadai language family, including Thai, Lao, Shan, and Zhuang.
  5. 10
    Initialism of Turkish Aerospace Industries. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  6. 11
    Initialism of Thai Airways International. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  7. 12
    Initialism of Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux, a now defunct French airline. abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
Noun
  1. 1
    A fish, the Japanese bream.
  2. 2
    A descendant of speakers of a common proto-Tai language, including subpopulations which no longer speak a Tai language.

    "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."

  3. 3
    Initialism of trifluoromethylaminoindane. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 4
    the most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages wordnet
  5. 5
    Initialism of technical analysis indicator. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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  1. 6
    a native or inhabitant of Thailand wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Japanese 鯛 (たい, tai).

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 邰 (Tái) and 斄 /𭤎 (Tái).

Etymology 3

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 代 (dài).

Etymology 4

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 戴 (Dài), as well as from its Cantonese pronunciation Daai³.

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