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Lai

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A Tibeto-Burman language of India and Burma.

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    A Tibeto-Burman language of India and Burma.

Etymology

Borrowed from Lai Lai.

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    A surname from Chinese.

Etymology

From Chinese 賴/赖 (lài) (Mandarin: lài, Cantonese: laai⁶, Hakka: lai).

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    A surname from Chinese.

Etymology

From Cantonese 黎 (lai4).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).