trai

From Vulgar Latin *tragere, from Latin trahere, present active infinitive of trahō.

trai (past participle trat)

1. (transitive) to throw; to dash
2. (transitive, intransitive) to shoot, to fire

• IPA^(key): /ˈtraj/

trai

1. (dated) Contraction of tra i.

trai

1. inflection of trarre:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Rita, arti, atri, irta, tari, tarì, tira

• Hyphenation: trai
• Rhymes: -aj

trai

1. inflection of trair:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Back-formation from trăi.

• IPA^(key): /traj/

trai n (uncountable)

1. living

• → Romani: tràjo (“life”)

• trey

From Proto-Tocharian *treyä, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognate with Tocharian A tre.

trai

1. three

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “trai”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 339-340

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaːj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʈaːj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʈaːj˧˧]

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From Proto-Vietic *p-laːl (“man, male”).

• (originally inland Northern Vietnam) giai
• (coastal Northern Vietnam, likely obsolete) lai
• (minced oath based on Northern dialects, nonstandard orthography) zai

trai • (𤳆, 𪩭, 𤳇)

1. (collective) boys and men

   con trai ― boys

2. (collective, informal, colloquial) gigolos; male prostitutes

   làm trai ― to be a gigolo

trai

1. (only in fixed expressions, of people) male

   Synonym: nam

   anh trai ― an older brother

   em trai ― a younger brother

   con trai ― a son / boys

   cháu trai ― a grandson / a nephew

   bác trai ― a man who's presumably slightly older than one's parent

   bạn trai ― a young male friend / a young boy or man / a boyfriend

• Unlike other kinship terms, bác is gender-neutral when used to address a senior stranger, therefore it could be accompanied by trai or gái for clarification.

• gái

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(classifier con) trai • (𧕚, 𧍍)

1. a mussel

• ngọc trai
• trai vằn

From Middle Welsh trei, from Proto-Celtic *trāgi (“low tide, beach”). Cognate with Old Irish tráig (“shore, strand; ebb tide”).

trai m

1. ebb tide

• llanw a thrai (“ebb and flow”)
• treio (“to ebb”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “trai”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies