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mai

/maɪ/

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What does mai mean?

determiner

  1. (slang) Alternative form of my.

noun

  1. Initialism of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection.
  2. Initialism of machine augmented intelligence.
More meanings (2)

proper noun

  1. A female given name, a rare spelling variant of Mae/May, or borrowed from Scandinavia, with the same ultimate origin.
  2. A surname from Chinese of Chinese or German origin.

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IPA pronunciation

/maɪ/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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Les passants croyaient que l’amour charmé Avait marié, dans notre heureux couple, Le doux mois d’avril au beau mois de mai.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
She was Mhtis, Mubt or Mai, "the universal genius of Nature, who discriminated all things according to their various kinds of species."
Eliza Burt GambleThe God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in ReligionProject Gutenberg ebook #639
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Io mi volsi a man' destra e posi mente All' altro polo, e vidi quattro stelle Non viste mai fuorch' alla prima gente.
Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé BonplandPersonal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1Translated by Thomasina RossProject Gutenberg ebook #6322
They call it the Mai d’agoa—the mother, or spirit, of the water.
Henry Walter BatesThe Naturalist on the River AmazonsProject Gutenberg ebook #2440
In the Nuit de Mai, the earliest of these songs of despair, we have the poet's symbol of the pelican giving its entrails as food to its starving young.
René DoumicGeorge Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and WritingsTranslated by Alys HallardProject Gutenberg ebook #138