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Added 10 October 2026

bai

noun

First recorded: 1910 Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about bai at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.

Origin

Borrowed from Japanese 霾 (bai). First recorded in English in the 1910s.

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