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Compare Hebrew עַד (ʿad̠, “until”).

adi (from Old Akkadian on)

  1. (place) up to, as far as
  2. (time) until, within
  3. (with numbers with the suffix -īšu) times, -fold

It does not take pronominal suffixes.

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adi

  1. younger sibling

Borrowed from Arabic عَادِيّ (ʕādiyy).

adi (comparative daha adi, superlative ən adi)

  1. usual, regular, normal, ordinary
    O adi bir insan deyildi. ― S/he was not an ordinary person.
  2. simple
    Synonym: sadə

adi

  1. Romanization of ᬳᬤᬶ
  2. Romanization of ᬅᬤᬶ
  3. Romanization of ᬅᬥᬶ
  4. Romanization of ᬆᬤᬶ

Short form of the verb aditu (“to hear”), itself from Latin audītum.[1]

  • IPA(key): /adi/ [a.ð̞i]
  • Rhymes: -adi
  • Hyphenation: a‧di

adi (comparative adiago, superlative adien, excessive adiegi)

  1. attentively, alertly
    Synonym: erne

adi inan

  1. attention
    Synonym: arreta

Declension of adi (inanimate, ending in vowel)

adi

  1. Short form of aditu (“to hear”).
  1. ^ “aditu” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
  • “adi”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
  • “adi”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Cognate to Malay adik.

  • IPA(key): /adi/
  • Hyphenation: a‧di

adi

  1. Younger sibling.

Compare Tagalog hari.

adi

  1. king

adi

  1. younger sibling

Cognate with Fon aɖǐ (“soap, poison”), Saxwe Gbe aɖí (“soap”), Adja aɖyi (“soap, poison”).

adí (plural adí lẹ́) (Nigeria)

  1. soap
    N jló ná yì họ̀ adí ― I want to go buy soap
  2. poison
    Odàn lọ́ dó adí táún ― The snake is very poisonous

From Proto-Malayic *adi, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *adi, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wadi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *huaji, from Proto-Austronesian *Suaji.

adi

  1. sibling ((younger) person who shares same parents)

adi

  1. Romanization of ꦲꦢꦶ.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hədiq. Compare Tagalog hindi.

  • (Standard Kankanaey) IPA(key): /ʔaˈdi/ [ʔʌˈdi̞]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Syllabification: a‧di

adí

  1. no, not
  • This is used to deny a state or action was done. To negate a situation, baken is used.
  • Janet L. Allen (2014) Kankanaey: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis‎[2] (overall work in English), →ISBN, pages 153-155

adi

  1. maybe; perhaps

adi

  1. Alternative form of ädi
  • Ethiopians Speak: Soddo (1965)

adī

  1. second-person singular active imperative of adeō

adi

  1. second-person singular present indicative/imperative of adīt

From Proto-Malayic *adi, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *adi, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wadi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *huaji, from Proto-Austronesian *Suaji.

adi (Jawi spelling ادي, plural adi-adi)

  1. Alternative form of adik (esp. in Brunei)

From Classical Malay ادي (adi), from Javanese ꦲꦢꦶ (adi), from Old Javanese adi, adhi, ādi (“beginning; first, principal; excellent”), from Sanskrit आदि, अधि (ādi, adhi).

  • IPA(key): /adi/
  • Hyphenation: adi

adi

  1. great, most, foremost
  2. (chemistry) noble, related to inert elements of group 18 in the periodic table
  • Edi Sedyawati, Ellya Iswati, Kusparyati Boedhijono, Dyah Widjajanti D. (1994) Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, →ISBN, page 207

adi

  1. face

adi (transitive)

  1. ask
  2. request
  3. need
  4. demand
  • Hernández Cruz, Luis, Victoria Torquemada, Moisés (2010) Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 45)‎[3] (in Spanish), second edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 3
  • ädi (also Adi dialect)

adi

  1. (Adi dialect) I
  • Robert Hetzron, The Gunnän-Gurage Languages (1977), page 5 (ädi, adi vs anä)
  • Sharon Rose, Velar Lenition in Muher Gurage (2000), in Lingua Posnaniensis 42 (adi vs əni)

adi

  1. second-person plural present indicative of is
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21c17

      Hóre adi ellachti i corp Crist, rob·bia-si ind indocbál do·ratad do suidiu.

      Since ye are united into Christ's body, ye shall have the glory which has been given to him.
  • Thurneysen[1] considers this form, which occurs only in the passage quoted above, to be a scribal error for adib, but since the -b in that form is taken over from the 2nd person plural pronoun and is not an original verb ending, it is also quite possible that this is a genuine archaic form.
  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 484

adi (plural adis)

  1. Northern Scots form of adae

Probably from Ewe aɖí (“abscess”).[1]

adi

  1. corn, clavus (painful hardened area of skin on the feet)

Probably from Ewe and Fon aɖí (“native soap”), Gen àɖǐ (“lye”).[2]

adi

  1. (obsolete) ash of dried banana leaves, used to make lye[3]
  1. ^ Norval Smith (2009) “A preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 465.
  2. ^ Norval Smith (2009) “A preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 465.
  3. ^ Hendrik Charles Focke (1855) Neger-Engelsch woordenboek [Negro English Dictionary]‎[1], Leiden: P.H. van den Heuvell, page 2

adi

  1. (intransitive) to change
Conjugation of adi
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st toadi foadi miadi
2nd noadi niadi
3rd Masculine oadi iadi, yoadi†
Feminine moadi
Neuter iadi
† - archaic

adi

  1. again
    Ngori tokodiho adi ― I came back again
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Ottoman Turkish عادی (adi), from Arabic عَادِيّ (ʕādiyy, “normal”).

IPA(key): /ɑːˈdiː/

adi

  1. inferior
  2. vulgar, ordinary

adi

  1. (Loli) to form rice in the shape of a mountain for traditional ceremonies
  • Lobu Ori, S,Pd, M.Pd (2010) “adi”, in Kamus Bahasa Lolina [Dictionary of the Loli Language] (in Indonesian), Waikabubak: Kepala Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Barat