dain.

Brit.

/dʌɪ/, U.S.

/daɪ/

Forms: 1700s dy, 1800s da'i, 1800s daee, 1800s dhaye, 1800s dhye, 1800s dyah, 1800s daye, 1900s– dai.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Hindi. Partly a borrowing from Urdu. Etymons: Hindi dhāī; Urdu dāya.

Etymology: < (i) Hindi dhāī, dāī wet nurse, also ‘midwife’ ( < Sanskrit dhātrī < dhā- to suck (3rd singular indicative dhayati) + an instrumental suffix), and (ii) Urdu dāya, dāī wet nurse, midwife, lady's maid ( < Persian dāya); the Hindi and Urdu words had already influenced each other in form and sense before being borrowed into English.

Chiefly in northern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: a wet nurse; (now more usually) a midwife.

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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > suckling infant > wet nurse

nursea1325

suck-giver1551

milkdame1582

nurse-girl1596

wet nursea1627

suck-nurse1652

dai1782

grass-nurse1797

amah1832

1782 India Gaz. 12 Oct. Dy (Wet-nurse) 10 Rs.

1810 T. Williamson E. India Vade-mecum I. 341 The Dhye is more generally an attendant upon native ladies.

1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 154 The English child born in India has a nurse called a da'i.

1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun xxix. 326 The ‘dyah’, or wet-nurse, is looked on as a second mother.

1920 Outward Bound Oct. 82/1 The doctor and her least dangerous dai (nurse) clambered into the waiting barouche.

1958 S. D. Dube India's Changing Villages iii. 75 Unlike the village dais, she refused to do any cleaning, and would not massage the mother and the baby in the weeks following the birth.

2011 Indian Express (Nexis) 24 July When The Indian Express visited the sub-centre, the ANM was on a month's leave and all the deliveries were being taken care of by the dai single-handedly.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dai
释义	dain. Brit. /dʌɪ/, U.S. /daɪ/ Forms: 1700s dy, 1800s da'i, 1800s daee, 1800s dhaye, 1800s dhye, 1800s dyah, 1800s daye, 1900s– dai. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Hindi. Partly a borrowing from Urdu. Etymons: Hindi dhāī; Urdu dāya. Etymology: < (i) Hindi dhāī, dāī wet nurse, also ‘midwife’ ( < Sanskrit dhātrī < dhā- to suck (3rd singular indicative dhayati) + an instrumental suffix), and (ii) Urdu dāya, dāī wet nurse, midwife, lady's maid ( < Persian dāya); the Hindi and Urdu words had already influenced each other in form and sense before being borrowed into English. Chiefly in northern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: a wet nurse; (now more usually) a midwife. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > suckling infant > wet nurse nursea1325 suck-giver1551 milkdame1582 nurse-girl1596 wet nursea1627 suck-nurse1652 dai1782 grass-nurse1797 amah1832 1782 India Gaz. 12 Oct. Dy (Wet-nurse) 10 Rs. 1810 T. Williamson E. India Vade-mecum I. 341 The Dhye is more generally an attendant upon native ladies. 1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 154 The English child born in India has a nurse called a da'i. 1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun xxix. 326 The ‘dyah’, or wet-nurse, is looked on as a second mother. 1920 Outward Bound Oct. 82/1 The doctor and her least dangerous dai (nurse) clambered into the waiting barouche. 1958 S. D. Dube India's Changing Villages iii. 75 Unlike the village dais, she refused to do any cleaning, and would not massage the mother and the baby in the weeks following the birth. 2011 Indian Express (Nexis) 24 July When The Indian Express visited the sub-centre, the ANM was on a month's leave and all the deliveries were being taken care of by the dai single-handedly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1782
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