Mai

Mai can refer to:

Name

• Mai means "mother" in Mirandese
• Mai, is an Arabic name means "Baby Deer".
• Mai, old French for Maia, the Italic goddess of spring, the daughter of Faunus, and wife of Vulcan (mythology)
• Mai, the pronunciation of Chinese surname 麥 (simplified 麦) in Mandarin.
  • Mak, the transliteration of the same name pronounced in Cantonese
• Mai (Chữ Nôm: 梅), see Mei (surname)
• Omai, aka Mai, the first person from the Pacific Islands to visit Europe
• Mai or Maj, a Swedish female name (from Maja, a nickname for Maria, see Mary (given name)))
• Mai is a slang in Bahasa Malaysia for 'come', spoken in the northern region of Malaysia which includes the states of Perlis, Kedah, Penang and Northern Perak. The official word in Bahasa Malaysia is 'mari'.
• Mai is the equivalent of King in some West African languages; it was, for example the title of the Duguwa and Sayfawa kings of Chad
• Mai,means 'mother' in Shona a short for the full title Amai

People

• Mai Charoenpura, a Thai pop singer from Bangkok
• Mai Kadowaki, a Japanese seiyū
• Mai Hoshimura (b. 1981), a J-pop singer under the Sony Music Japan label
• Mai Kudō (b. 1984), formerly known as Ruppina, J-Pop singer
• Mai Kuraki (b. 1982), a J-pop singer
• Mai Yamada, Japanese actress
• Mai Yamane, (b. 1958), a Japanese English-language blues singer
• Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and film director

Fictional characters

• Mai, a supporting character from the television show Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Mai, one of Pilaf's henchmen from Dragon Ball
• Mai, one of the main characters from the anime & eroge game Popotan
• Mai Kawasumi, a character in the Kanon visual novel, anime, and manga.
• Mai Kuju of Mai the Psychic Girl, a 1985 manga
• Mai Mishō, co-protagonist of Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star
• Mai Shiranui, a character in The King of Fighters series of video games.
• Mai Taniyama, a character in the anime and manga Ghost Hunt
• Mai Tsubasa (aka Change Phoenix, a character in Dengeki Sentai Changeman.
• Mai Tokiha, the title character in the anime and manga My-HiME (originally Mai-HiME), and a supporting character in My-Otome
• Mai Valentine (Mai Kujaku in the Japanese version), a character from the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

Music

• Mai (song), a song by Josh Groban from the album Awake Live

Other uses

• Mai, Thailand
• Mai, a mother goddess in Siberian mythology, mostly among Turkish Siberians
• May, the fifth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, in Hebrew, French, Romanian, German, Norwegian and Welsh

Acronym

• Multiple Access Interference, a type of interference that occurs in CDMA systems
• Machine augmented intelligence, the use of technology to amplify and empower human thought and consciousness
• Market for Alternative Investment, a stock market for SMEs in Thailand
• Marine Accident Investigation, the Investigation of Ship relating accidents
• Mean annual increment, a measure of the average growth per year a tree or stand of trees has exhibited at a specified age
• Member of the Appraisal Institute, a degree requiring ascending levels of tests
• Ministry of Interior (Portugal), Ministério da Administração Interna, the Portuguese Ministry of Interior.
• Ministry of Administration and Interior (Romania), Ministerul Administraţiei şi internelor, the Romanian Ministry of Administration and Interior.
• Motorsports Association of India, the FIA arm of Indian Motorsports
• Moscow Aviation Institute, an engineering an aviation academy in Russia
• Multilateral Agreement on Investment, a treaty negotiated between members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) between 1995 and 1998
• Myanmar Airways International, an airline from Myanmar (Burma)
• Mycobacterium avium intracellulare, a mycobacterial infection which typically occurs in immunosuppressed patients, such as those in the late stages of AIDS
• Maithili language ISO 639 code
• Malaysian Association of Illinois, a non-profit organization for Malaysians residing in the state of Illinois and the nearby states