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mai
/maɪ/
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What does mai mean?
determiner
- (slang) Alternative form of my.
noun
- Initialism of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection.
- Initialism of machine augmented intelligence.
More meanings (2)
proper noun
- A female given name, a rare spelling variant of Mae/May, or borrowed from Scandinavia, with the same ultimate origin.
- A surname from Chinese of Chinese or German origin.
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IPA pronunciation
/maɪ/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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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.
She was Mhtis, Mubt or Mai, "the universal genius of Nature, who discriminated all things according to their various kinds of species."
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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.
They call it the Mai d’agoa—the mother, or spirit, of the water.
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.