Sai

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Shan (Myanmar)

Meaning

a common masculine prefix-name in Shan culture, used in the Shan State of Myanmar and among Shan communities in Thailand and Yunnan, meaning lord or prince and reflecting the traditional Shan social structure of sawbwas — hereditary princes who ruled the Shan principalities until the Burmese military consolidated central authority in the mid-twentieth century; Sai is often combined with a second element to form a complete name — Sai Kham, Sai Leng, Sai Mao — with each combination carrying its own specific meaning; to bear the prefix Sai marks a man as a member of the Shan ethnic community and connects him to the aristocratic and Buddhist heritage of a people with their own script, literature, and calendar predating Burmese political dominance

Gender

male