abi

abi

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Abidji.

abi

1. woman

• Don Daniels, Magi: An Undocumented Language (in a comparative wordlist)

• IPA^(key): /abi/

abi

1. alternative spelling of habis (“finish”)

• Hyphenation: a‧bi

abi

1. to misconstrue; to interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand

Often confused with ambi.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:abi.

• iba

Possibly the second verb in a verb-pair with albi. Cognate with Alabama ibi and Choctaw abi.

• IPA^(key): /abi/

abi (active)

1. (transitive) to kill (I;II)
2. (transitive) to abort (I;II)

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

• ʋbi (traditional)
• ạbi (Byington/Swanton)

Cognate with Alabama ibi (“to kill”), Chickasaw abi (“to kill”)

abi

1. killer, murderer
2. killing, slaughter

abi

1. to kill, to murder
2. to be sick or infected (usually with a skin disease)

• abichi

From Proto-Finnic *api.

abi (genitive abi, partitive abi)

1. help

• abi in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik
• abi in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat
• abi in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
• abi in Sõnaveeb

Clipping of abiturientti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑbi/, [ˈɑbi]
• Rhymes: -ɑbi
• Syllabification^(key): a‧bi

abi

1. (colloquial) A candidate for the matriculation examination.

abi

1. elder sister

• abigipa (formal)
• abitang (formal)

From French habit(s).

abi

1. clothes

• rad
• lenj

ábi

1. for instance

ábi

1. imagine
2. think
3. say aloud

From Arabic أَبِي‎ (ʾabī, “father”), genitive construct state of أَب‎ (ʾab, “father”), from Proto-Semitic *ʾab- (“father”). Doublet of aba, abu, and abbas.

• IPA^(key): /abi/
• Hyphenation: a‧bi

abi

1. father

   Synonyms: ayah, bapak

• “abi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

abi

1. Rōmaji transcription of あび
2. Rōmaji transcription of アビ

abi

1. Alternative spelling of ábi

abi

1. Alternative spelling of ábi

From Proto-Mongolic *ab-, compare Mongolian авах (avax).

abi

1. to take

abī

1. second-person singular active imperative of abeō

From an earlier abu, still dialectally attested (abi was originally the feminine/neuter dual form), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *abu, from Proto-Indo-European *a(m)-bʰow, where the initial part is an old deictic pronoun or particle, reinforcing the meaning “two, both” of the second part. Cognates include Lithuanian abù, abì, Old Prussian abbai, Old Church Slavonic оба (oba), Russian о́ба (óba), Belarusian о́ба (óba), о́бадва (óbadva), Ukrainian о́ба (óba), Bulgarian о́ба (óba), Czech, Polish oba, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌹 (bai), German beide, Sanskrit उभौ (ubháu), Ancient Greek ἄμφω (ámphō), Latin ambō, Tocharian A āmpi.[1]

• IPA^(key): [abi]

abi (no def., no comp., no sup., no adv.)

1. both (one and the other of two)

   abas acis, rokas, kājas ― both eyes, hands, legs

   satvert abās rokās ― to grab with (lit. in) both hands

   abās pusēs ceļam mežs ― the road has forest on both sides

   klausīties (ar) abām ausīm ― to hear with both ears (= very attentively)

   attālums starp abiem ledus gabaliem ātri auga ― the distance between both pieces of ice grew rapidly

2. (used pronominally) both (the two previously mentioned)

   pie mājas aug divi ozoli, abi tēva stādīti ― by the house two oaks grow, both planted by father

   Helēna apskāva māti, un viņas abas nosēdās blakus tēvam ― Helēna hugged mother, and both of them sat next to father.

• abinieks

From Yoruba àbí.

àbi

1. or

   Synonyms: or, weda

In "either...or" sentences, this word can optionally be placed in the "whether" position as well.

àbi

1. Interrogative particle placed at the beginning or end of a yes/no question.

   Synonym: weda

IPA^(key): /əˈbɪ/

abi (changed conjunct form ebid, reduplicated form ayabi)

1. be at home

   Abi go awe gaa-pi-andwewemind awasonaago.

   The person they asked about the other day was home.

2. sit in (a certain place)

• ab-
• namadabi (“sit”)

• ate
• ayaa (vai)

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/abi-vai

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *apuy, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hapuy, from Proto-Austronesian *Sapuy.

abi

1. fire (oxidation reaction)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal, yesterday”), from Proto-Austronesian *ʀabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal”).

abî

1. night

• kadhating-abi

Compare Italian ape.

abi ?

1. (Campidanese) bee

From English have or Portuguese haver.

abi

1. to have
   • 1783, C. L. Schumann, Neger-Englisches Worterbuch [Negro English Dictionary]‎:

     Kuljara va ju no habi bunne hudu, da buba soso

     Your canoe doesn't have proper wood, it's just sapwood.

Compare Persian آبی‎ (âbi).

abi (Cyrillic аби)

1. light blue

• Pirejko, L. A. (1976), “аби”, in Talyšsko-russkij slovarʹ [Talysh–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 20

Contraction of ağabey.

• IPA^(key): /aːbi/

abi (definite accusative abiyi, plural abiler)

1. (colloquial) elder brother

The term is a common respectful form of address for any non-elderly adult man.

abi

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of aver
2. second-person singular imperative of aver

abi

1. but also

• noe

From Proto-Finnic *api.

abi (genitive abi, partitive api)

1. help, aid, assistance

• tàbí

• IPA^(key): /à.bí/

àbí

1. or