bibe

See also: Bibe and bibë

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish badhb, a variant of badhbh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪb/
• Rhymes: -aɪb

Noun

bibe (plural bibes)

1. (Ireland, Newfoundland) A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
   • 1822, “All Hallow Eve in Ireland”, in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist‎^[1], volume IX, number XV, page 257:

     " […] But when Jack lies on his low death-bed, with the clammy dews standing on his brow, the moaning bibe combing her yellow locks, and singing the death-wail at his casement, then will this, and all poor Delaney's other actions, appear to his darkening eye in their true colours."

   • 1952, Shaw Desmond, Love by the Dark Water, page 11:

     Down there where the Bibe had her hole out of which she would howl to the rising moon and to the fairy peoples that would be peeping out at the new moon only to withdraw their small heads as they heard the cry of the Bibe.

   • 1992, William Nolan, Thomas P. Power, Waterford history & Society, page 628:

     He never believed in the bibe although the people were always talking of her.

   • 2006, Coralie Hughes Jensen, Lety's Gift‎^[2]:

     Sophie's face grew serious. "Not the bibe. She comes when we dies."

References

• Story et al. (1990) “bibe”, in Dictionary of Newfoundland English‎^[3], Second Edition with supplement edition, Toronto

Hungarian

bibe (sense 4)

Etymology

Probably a nominalization of the present participle (formed with -e (obsolete present-participle suffix)) of an unattested stem. The stem is of onomatopoeic origin and is possibly the same as in bíbelődik; it may also be related to the stem of babrál and babirkál. First attested in 1578. The term developed alongside bibi through a semantic split.

For phonetically similar equivalents of the “minor injury” sense (sense 1), see German Wehweh, Wehwehchen, French bobo, Czech bebé, bebíčko. The “stigma” sense (sense 4) is a semantic loan from Latin stigma (“brand (burned mark); stigma”), from Ancient Greek στῐ́γμᾰ (stígma, “mark, brand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbibɛ]
• Hyphenation: bi‧be
• Rhymes: -bɛ

Noun

bibe (plural bibék)

2. (archaic) a minor injury; a small wound

   Synonym: bibi

3. (archaic, often in the possessive) weak spot, vulnerability

   Synonyms: bibi, gyenge, gyengeség, gyenge pont

4. (dated, often in the possessive) snag, hitch (problem or difficulty with something)

   Synonyms: bibi, bökkenő

6. (botany) stigma (sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination)

   Synonym: (archaic) porfogó

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	bibe	bibék
accusative	bibét	bibéket
dative	bibének	bibéknek
instrumental	bibével	bibékkel
causal-final	bibéért	bibékért
translative	bibévé	bibékké
terminative	bibéig	bibékig
essive-formal	bibeként	bibékként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	bibében	bibékben
superessive	bibén	bibéken
adessive	bibénél	bibéknél
illative	bibébe	bibékbe
sublative	bibére	bibékre
allative	bibéhez	bibékhez
elative	bibéből	bibékből
delative	bibéről	bibékről
ablative	bibétől	bibéktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	bibéé	bibéké
non-attributive possessive - plural	bibééi	bibékéi

Possessive forms of bibe
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	bibém	bibéim
2nd person sing.	bibéd	bibéid
3rd person sing.	bibéje	bibéi
1st person plural	bibénk	bibéink
2nd person plural	bibétek	bibéitek
3rd person plural	bibéjük	bibéik

Derived terms

• bibéjű
• bibés

 

Further reading

• (small wound etc.): bibe in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (stigma): bibe in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• bibe in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Interlingua

Verb

bibe

1. present of biber
2. imperative of biber

Irish

Alternative forms

• bib

Etymology

Borrowed from English bib.

Noun

bibe m (genitive singular bibe, nominative plural bibí)

1. bib; apron-top

   Synonym: sciúlán

Declension

Declension of bibe

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative bibe bibí Vocative a bhibe a bhibí Genitive bibe bibí Dative bibe bibí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an bibe na bibí Genitive an bhibe na mbibí Dative leis an mbibe don bhibe leis na bibí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bibe	bhibe	mbibe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bibe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bibe”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bibe”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Latin

Verb

bibe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of bibō

Masbatenyo

Noun

bibe

1. duckling

   Synonym: itik

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.bi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.bi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.be/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.bɨ/ [ˈbi.βɨ]

• Hyphenation: bi‧be

Noun

bibe m (plural bibes)

1. bib (item of clothing for babies)

   Synonym: babador

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• bibi

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay bebek. Compare Rukai bibi and Saisiyat bibi꞉.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbibe/ [ˈbiː.bɛ]
• Rhymes: -ibe
• Syllabification: bi‧be

Noun

bibe (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ)

1. a species of white duck
2. duckling; young duck

Related terms

• baliwis
• itik
• pato

 

Further reading

• “bibe”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “duck”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI