drai

From Middle High German drī, from Old High German drī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz. Cognate with German drei, Dutch drie, English three.

• IPA^(key): /drai/, [dʁai]

drai (dative drain)

1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) three

   sbéen, drai, viare ― two, three, four

   drai khüu ― three cows

• “drai” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): /ɖai/

drai

1. day

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From Dutch schroevendraaier (“screwdriver”), while Dutch draai means rotation, spin or turn.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdrai̯]
• Hyphenation: drai

drai (plural drai-drai, first-person possessive draiku, second-person possessive draimu, third-person possessive drainya)

1. star screwdriver.

   Synonym: obeng

• “drai” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Middle High German drī, from Old High German drī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz. Cognate with German drei, English three.

drai

1. three

• “drai” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

From Dutch draaien.

drai

1. (intransitive) to turn

From Dutch draai.

drai

1. turn
2. bend

   Synonym: beni

   Synonym: boktu

drai

1. to turn

   mi bere e drai ― I am nauseous (literally: my stomach is turning)

From English dry.

drai

1. dry
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:9:

     Bihain God i tok olsem, “Wara i stap aninit long skai i mas i go bung long wanpela hap tasol, bai ples drai i kamap.” Orait ples drai i kamap.

     →New International Version translation

drai

1. an old coconut used for copra

• kokonas (“coconut palm”)
• kulau (“young coconut”)