dai

plural dais

1. BangladeshIndiaNorthPakistanA wet nurse; a midwife.First known use 18th c.

   Kausalya, she learnt, was his dai, the one who had breast-fed and looked after him.

   1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 72

1. A diminutive of the male given name David, from Welsh.

plural Dais

1. An ethnic group of China, one of the 55 officially recognized minorities.
2. A member of the ethnic group.

alternative Tai

1. historicalA small northern state of ancient China.
2. historicalVarious other kingdoms and princely appenages of imperial China named for the ancient state.
3. historicalA prefecture of Shanxi under imperial China.

   Synonyms: Daizhou, Taichow, Tai-chou

4. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.

   A northern section of the Great Wall of China collapsed after a period of heavy rain last month, with many blaming poor-quality renovations for the deterioration of the iconic landmark. The damaged section of the historical wall is located near Yanmen Pass, in Dai County, in the Shanxi province.

   2018 August 2, Christina Zhao, “Great Wall of China Collapse: Poor Renovation Works And Heavy Rainfall Blamed”, in Newsweek, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2018

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   Tian Yongsheng from Shanxi province is desperate to find a way to relieve the chest pain which has haunted him for years.[…] He is well aware what will happen if he is not treated. Many of his neighbours in Dai county - all coal miners - have died of the disease after suffering great pain. 'In the five villages [in Dai county] that I knew, all men from 18 to 50 suffer pneumoconiosis,' said Mr Tian. 'Among 100 coal miners, 100 have pneumoconiosis.

   2004 July 30, Josephine Ma, “Coal miners face long, painful death”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2023

   One of the most remarkable features of the redemptive societies was their continuing ability to draw members of the CCP and the Youth League into their ranks. In 1950 in Shanxi, 18 percent of the 3,000 Communists in Dai County were members of the Yiguandao, which had affiliates in 74 percent of rural Party branches.

   2015, S. A. Smith, “Redemptive Religious Societies and the Communist State, 1949 to the 1980s”, in Jeremy Brown, Matthew D. Johnson, editors, Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 350

   Synonyms: Daixian, Tai-hsien

1. A surname.

1. abbreviationinitialismslanglifestyleInitialism of Dragon Age: Inquisition.

   Synonyms: DA3