Etymology

Clipping of EnglishCategory:Translingual terms derived from English#ABI AbidjiCategory:Translingual clippings#ABI.

Symbol

abiCategory:Translingual lemmas#ABICategory:Translingual symbols#ABICategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#ABICategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Abidji terms

Noun

abiCategory:Aisi lemmas#ABICategory:Aisi nouns#ABICategory:Aisi entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. woman

Further reading

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abi/Category:Baba Malay terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI

Verb

abiCategory:Baba Malay lemmas#ABICategory:Baba Malay verbs#ABICategory:Baba Malay entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. alternative spelling of habis (“finish”)

References

• Lee, Nala H. (2022), “abi”, in A Grammar of Modern Baba Malay, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 342

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧bi

Verb

abiCategory:Cebuano lemmas#ABICategory:Cebuano verbs#ABICategory:Cebuano entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

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

Anagrams

• iba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abi/Category:Chickasaw terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI

Verb

abi (active)Category:Chickasaw lemmas#ABICategory:Chickasaw verbs#ABICategory:Chickasaw entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. (transitiveCategory:Chickasaw transitive verbs#ABI) to kill (I;II)
2. (transitiveCategory:Chickasaw transitive verbs#ABI) to abort (I;II)

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Noun

abiCategory:Choctaw lemmas#ABICategory:Choctaw nouns#ABICategory:Choctaw entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. killer, murderer
2. killing, slaughter

Verb

abiCategory:Choctaw lemmas#ABICategory:Choctaw verbs#ABICategory:Choctaw entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

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

Etymology

From Proto-FinnicCategory:Estonian terms inherited from Proto-Finnic#ABICategory:Estonian terms derived from Proto-Finnic#ABI *api.

Noun

abi (genitive abi, partitive abi)Category:Estonian lemmas#ABICategory:Estonian nouns#ABICategory:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. help

Further reading

• “abi”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “abi”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “abi”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• abi in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Etymology

Clipping of abiturienttiCategory:Finnish clippings#ABI.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑbi/, [ˈɑ̝bi]Category:Finnish 2-syllable words#ABICategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI
• Rhymes: -ɑbiCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ɑbi#ABICategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ɑbi/2 syllables#ABI
• Syllabification^(key): a‧bi
• Hyphenation^(key): abi

Noun

abiCategory:Finnish lemmas#ABICategory:Finnish nouns#ABICategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI (colloquialCategory:Finnish colloquialisms#ABI)

1. A candidate for the matriculation examination.

Further reading

• “abi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Noun

abiCategory:Garo lemmas#ABICategory:Garo nouns#ABICategory:Garo entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. elder sister

Etymology

From FrenchCategory:Haitian Creole terms derived from French#ABI habit(s).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bi/Category:Haitian Creole terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI

Noun

abiCategory:Haitian Creole lemmas#ABICategory:Haitian Creole nouns#ABICategory:Haitian Creole entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. clothes

References

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎, Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔabi/ [ˈʔa.bi]Category:Hanunoo 2-syllable words#ABICategory:Hanunoo terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI
• Rhymes: -abiCategory:Rhymes:Hanunoo/abi#ABICategory:Rhymes:Hanunoo/abi/2 syllables#ABI
• Syllabification: a‧bi

Conjunction

abi (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜪᜲ)Category:Hanunoo lemmas#ABICategory:Hanunoo conjunctions#ABICategory:Hanunoo terms with missing Hanunoo script entries#ABICategory:Hanunoo terms with Hanunoo script#ABICategory:Hanunoo entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. in case, if it should happen, perchance

   no abi ― if perchanceCategory:Hanunoo terms with usage examples#ABI

Further reading

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953), Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 18

Adverb

ábiCategory:Hiligaynon lemmas#ABICategory:Hiligaynon adverbs#ABICategory:Hiligaynon terms without pronunciation template#ABICategory:Hiligaynon entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. for instance

Verb

ábiCategory:Hiligaynon lemmas#ABICategory:Hiligaynon verbs#ABICategory:Hiligaynon terms without pronunciation template#ABICategory:Hiligaynon entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. imagine
2. think
3. say aloud

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bi/Category:Iban terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI

Noun

abiCategory:Iban lemmas#ABICategory:Iban nouns#ABICategory:Iban entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. wound or cut
2. trace
3. scars
4. cracks (as in jars, plates etc.)

Etymology

Inherited from MalayCategory:Indonesian terms inherited from Malay#ABICategory:Indonesian terms derived from Malay#ABI abi, from Classical MalayCategory:Indonesian terms inherited from Classical Malay#ABICategory:Indonesian terms derived from Classical Malay#ABI [Term?]Category:Malay term requests#ABI, from ArabicCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Arabic#ABI أَبِي (ʔabī, “father”), genitive construct state of أَب (ʔab, “father”), from Proto-SemiticCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Semitic#ABI *ʾab- (“father”). Doublet of aba, abu, and abbasCategory:Indonesian doublets#ABI.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abi/Category:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI
• Hyphenation: a‧bi

Noun

abiCategory:Indonesian lemmas#ABICategory:Indonesian nouns#ABICategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. father

   Synonyms: ayah, bapak

Further reading

• “abi”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Romanization

abiCategory:Japanese non-lemma forms#ABICategory:Japanese romanizations#ABICategory:Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes#ABICategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

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

Pronoun

abiCategory:Kalasha lemmas#ABICategory:Kalasha pronouns#ABICategory:Kalasha entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. alternative spelling of ábi

Determiner

abiCategory:Kalasha lemmas#ABICategory:Kalasha determiners#ABICategory:Kalasha entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. alternative spelling of ábi

Etymology

From Proto-MongolicCategory:Kangjia terms inherited from Proto-Mongolic#ABICategory:Kangjia terms derived from Proto-Mongolic#ABI *ab-, compare Mongolian авах (avax).

Verb

abiCategory:Kangjia lemmas#ABICategory:Kangjia verbs#ABICategory:Kangjia entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. to take

Verb

abīCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#ABICategory:Latin verb forms#ABICategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. second-person singular present active imperative of abeō

Etymology

From an earlier abu, still dialectally attested (abi was originally the feminine/neuter dual form), from Proto-Balto-SlavicCategory:Latvian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic#ABICategory:Latvian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic#ABI *abōˀ (“both”),^[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latvian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ABI *bʰóh₁, possibly prefixed with *Ho,^[2][3] an old deictic pronoun or particle, reinforcing the meaning “two, both” of the second part. Cognates include Lithuanian abù, abi̇̀, 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)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#ABI, Ancient Greek ἄμφω (ámphō), Latin ambō, Tocharian A āmpi.^[4]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [abi]Category:Latvian terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Latvian terms with audio pronunciation#ABI

Adjective

abiCategory:Latvian lemmas#ABICategory:Latvian adjectives#ABICategory:Latvian entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI (no def., no comp., no sup., no adv.)

1. both (one and the other of two)

   abas acis, rokas, kājas ― both eyes, hands, legsCategory:Latvian terms with usage examples#ABI

   satvert abās rokās ― to grab with (lit. in) both handsCategory:Latvian terms with usage examples#ABI

   abās pusēs ceļam mežs ― the road has forest on both sidesCategory:Latvian terms with usage examples#ABI

   klausīties (ar) abām ausīm ― to hear with both ears (= very attentively)Category:Latvian terms with usage examples#ABI

   attālums starp abiem ledus gabaliem ātri auga ― the distance between both pieces of ice grew rapidlyCategory:Latvian terms with usage examples#ABI

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 fatherCategory:Latvian terms with usage examples#ABI

   Helēna apskāva māti, un viņas abas nosēdās blakus tēvam ― Helēna hugged mother, and both of them sat next to father.Category:Latvian terms with usage examples#ABI

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References

Etymology

From YorubaCategory:Nigerian Pidgin terms borrowed from Yoruba#ABICategory:Nigerian Pidgin terms derived from Yoruba#ABI àbí.

Conjunction

àbiCategory:Nigerian Pidgin lemmas#ABICategory:Nigerian Pidgin conjunctions#ABICategory:Nigerian Pidgin entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. or

   Synonyms: or, weda

Particle

àbiCategory:Nigerian Pidgin lemmas#ABICategory:Nigerian Pidgin particles#ABICategory:Nigerian Pidgin entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

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

   Synonym: weda

Further reading

• “abi” in Naija Guru, 2026.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌˈbɪ/Category:Ojibwe terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI

Verb

abi (changed conjunct form ebid, reduplicated form ayabi)Category:Ojibwe lemmas#ABICategory:Ojibwe verbs#ABICategory:Ojibwe verb animate intransitive (vai)#ABICategory:Ojibwe entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. be at home

   Abi go awe gaa-pi-andwewemind awasonaago.

   The person they asked about the other day was home.

   Category:Ojibwe terms with usage examples#ABI

2. sit in (a certain place)

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References

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

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-PolynesianCategory:Palu'e terms inherited from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian#ABICategory:Palu'e terms derived from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian#ABI *apuy, from Proto-Malayo-PolynesianCategory:Palu'e terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian#ABICategory:Palu'e terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian#ABI *hapuy, from Proto-AustronesianCategory:Palu'e terms inherited from Proto-Austronesian#ABICategory:Palu'e terms derived from Proto-Austronesian#ABI *Sapuy.

Noun

abiCategory:Palu'e lemmas#ABICategory:Palu'e nouns#ABICategory:Palu'e entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. fire (oxidation reaction)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-PolynesianCategory:Remontado Agta terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian#ABICategory:Remontado Agta terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian#ABI *ʀabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal, yesterday”), from Proto-AustronesianCategory:Remontado Agta terms inherited from Proto-Austronesian#ABICategory:Remontado Agta terms derived from Proto-Austronesian#ABI *ʀabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal”).

Noun

abîCategory:Remontado Agta lemmas#ABICategory:Remontado Agta nouns#ABICategory:Remontado Agta entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. night

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar LatinCategory:Romanian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin#ABICategory:Romanian terms derived from Vulgar Latin#ABI *ad vix, from ad +‎ vix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈbi/Category:Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI
• Rhymes: -iCategory:Rhymes:Romanian/i#ABICategory:Rhymes:Romanian/i/2 syllables#ABI
• Hyphenation: a‧bí

Adverb

abiCategory:Romanian lemmas#ABICategory:Romanian adverbs#ABICategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. (western OlteniaCategory:Oltenian Romanian#ABI) alternative form of abia (“barely”)

References

• Vasile Burlă (1880), Studie filologice [Philological studies]‎, Iași, page 87

Further reading

• “abi”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Etymology

Inherited from Classical LatinCategory:Sardinian terms inherited from Classical Latin#ABICategory:Sardinian terms derived from Classical Latin#ABI apis, apem. Compare Logudorese abe, Nuorese ape.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaβi/Category:Sardinian terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI

Noun

abi f (plural abis)Category:Sardinian lemmas#ABICategory:Sardinian nouns#ABICategory:Sardinian entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Sardinian feminine nouns#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. (CampidaneseCategory:Campidanese#ABI) bee

References

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964), Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006), Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈab(b)i/Category:Sassarese terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI

Etymology 1

From Classical LatinCategory:Sassarese terms inherited from Classical Latin#ABICategory:Sassarese terms derived from Classical Latin#ABI apis (“bee”), of uncertain further origin.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

References

• Ugo Solinas (2016), “àbi”, in Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 1, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 20

Etymology

From EnglishCategory:Sranan Tongo terms derived from English#ABI have or PortugueseCategory:Sranan Tongo terms derived from Portuguese#ABI haver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abi/, [a̠bi], [ɑ̟bi]Category:Sranan Tongo terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI

Verb

abiCategory:Sranan Tongo lemmas#ABICategory:Sranan Tongo verbs#ABICategory:Sranan Tongo entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. to have
   • 1783, C. L. Schumann, Neger-Englisches Worterbuch [Negro English Dictionary]‎, archived from the original on 8 February 2023:

     Kuljara va ju no habi bunne hudu, da buba soso

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

     Category:Sranan Tongo terms with quotations#ABI

Etymology

Compare Persian آبی (âbi).

Noun

abi (Cyrillic аби)Category:Talysh lemmas#ABICategory:Talysh nouns#ABICategory:Talysh entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. light blue

References

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

Etymology

Contraction of ağa +‎ beyCategory:Turkish contractions#ABI.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːbi/Category:Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Turkish terms with audio pronunciation#ABI

Noun

abi (definite accusative abiyi, plural abiler)Category:Turkish lemmas#ABICategory:Turkish nouns#ABICategory:Turkish entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. colloquialCategory:Turkish colloquialisms#ABI form of ağabey: elder brother

Verb

abiCategory:Venetan non-lemma forms#ABICategory:Venetan verb forms#ABICategory:Venetan entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

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

Conjunction

abiCategory:Volapük lemmas#ABICategory:Volapük conjunctions#ABICategory:Volapük entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. but also

See also

• noe

Etymology

From Proto-FinnicCategory:Võro terms inherited from Proto-Finnic#ABICategory:Võro terms derived from Proto-Finnic#ABI *api.

Noun

abi (genitive abi, partitive api)Category:Võro lemmas#ABICategory:Võro nouns#ABICategory:Võro entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. help, aid, assistance

Alternative forms

• tàbí

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /à.bí/Category:Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation#ABI

Conjunction

àbíCategory:Yoruba lemmas#ABICategory:Yoruba conjunctions#ABICategory:Yoruba entries with incorrect language header#ABICategory:Pages with entries#ABICategory:Pages with 33 entries#ABI

1. or