tabi

From Japanese 足袋 (tabi, “foot pouch”).

tabi (plural tabis or tabi)

1. Traditional Japanese ankle socks with a separate section for the big toe.

• IBAT, a bit, bait, bati

• Hyphenation: ta‧bi
• IPA^(key): /ˈtabiʔ/

tabì

1. please

   Synonym: baya

tabì

1. (formal, polite) marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing

   Dagos tabi kamo.

   Come on in, Sir/Ma'am.

   Ma, maduman tabi ako sa simbahan.

   Mom, I am going to church.

   Synonym: po

• Hyphenation: ta‧bi

Unknown.

tabi

1. chitchat
2. talk; empty boasting, promises or claims
3. a rumor; a statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth
4. gossip; idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present

tabi

1. to talk; to communicate, usually by means of speech
2. to criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself
3. to chitchat
4. to gossip

Unknown.

tabi

1. excuse me
2. go away
3. a customary expression to excuse oneself from spirits or ghosts so as to avoid offending or injuring them, used especially when passing through or entering an unfamiliar, wooded or haunted place

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tabi.

• bati

• IPA^(key): /ta.ˈbi/

tabí

1. fat; oil

• matabi

• IPA^(key): [tabiəʔ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧bi

tabi

1. greeting

tabi

1. Rōmaji transcription of たび

tābī

1. dative singular of tābēs

Compare Waray-Waray tabi (“shore”).

• Hyphenation: ta‧bi
• IPA^(key): /taˈbi/, [tɐˈbi]
• IPA^(key): /taˈbe/, [tɐˈbe] (colloquial)

tabí

1. area beside a person or thing

   Synonym: piling

2. act of staying adjacent to another

   Synonyms: pagtabi, pagpiling, pagsiping, pagsigbay

3. act of staying or passing along the side or border (of a road, river, etc.)

   Synonyms: panggigilid, pananabi

4. edge; border

   Synonym: gilid

5. condition of being adjacent or being close together

   Synonyms: pagkamagkatabi, pagkamagkapiling, pagkamagkasiping, pagkamagkasigbay

6. act of keeping something in a safe place

   Synonyms: tago, pagtatago, ligpit, pagliligpit

7. act of saving for the future (especially of money)

   Synonyms: impok, pag-iimpok

8. savings; anything saved for the future

   Synonyms: inimpok, naimpok

From Malay tabik, ultimately from Sanskrit क्षन्तव्य (kṣantavya).

• Hyphenation: ta‧bi
• IPA^(key): /ˈtabiʔ/, [ˈta.bɪʔ]
• IPA^(key): /taˈbi/, [tɐˈbi]

tabì or tabí

1. used to tell or order people to get out of one's way: out of the way!, or excuse me!

   Synonyms: alis, habi, isod

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.bi]

tabi

1. (transitive) to bring together

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Ottoman Turkish تابع‎, from Arabic تَابِع‎ (tābiʿ).

tabi (definite accusative tabii, plural tabiler or tevabi)

1. follower
2. dependent; subject; servant

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tabi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تابع”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 471
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

tabi

1. accusative singular of tab

• IPA^(key): /tà.bí/

tàbí

1. Alternative form of àbí (“or”)