מאי

Aramaic

Pronoun

מַאי • (transliteration needed)

  1. (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic) what, why

Hebrew

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin māius (“Maia's month”), from Maia, a Roman earth goddess, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *magya (“she who is great”), from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“great”).

Proper noun

מַאי • (may) m

  1. May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)
  2. a female given name
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic מאי‎.

Pronoun

מַאי • (may) m or f

  1. (formal) what

Etymology 3
Hebrew numbers (edit)
 ←  10 100
10
    Cardinal: מאה‎ (me'á)
    Ordinal: מאי (me'i)

מֵאָה‎ (me'á, “hundred”) +‎ ־י‎ (-i, “used to form adjectives from nouns”).

Adjective

מֵאִי • (me'i) (feminine מֵאִית‎, masculine plural מֵאִיִּים‎, feminine plural מֵאִיּוֹת‎)

  1. hundredth

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