gabi

See also: Gabi and gab-i

English

Etymology

From Cebuano gabi.

Noun

gabi

1. Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
2. Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
3. Food from a taro plant.

Anagrams

• Baig, Biga, bagi, biga

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ga‧bi

Noun

gabi

1. the taro plant (Colocasia esculenta)
2. any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
3. the corms of this plant
4. the leaves of this plant used as vegetable

Derived terms

• gabigabi

Anagrams

• biga

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Gamilaraay

gabi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡabi/

Etymology 1

Noun

gabi

1. A male marriage class or skin group. A gabi can marry only a yibathaa; his sons will be gambu, and his daughters buuthaa.

Etymology 2

From English coffee.

Noun

gabi

1. coffee

References

• Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)
• Dhiirrala Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Language Program St Joseph School Po Box 125 Walgett NSW 2368 Australia
• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary
• (2015) Ma Gamilaraay

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Hiligaynon

Noun

gábi

1. taro

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Tagakaulu Kalagan

Noun

gabi

1. night

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Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *Rabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal, yesterday”), from Proto-Austronesian *Rabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal”). Cognate with Amis lafi (“dinner, evening meal”), Ilocano rabii, Cebuano gabii, and Bima awi, awina (“yesterday”).

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈbi/
• Hyphenation: ga‧bi

Noun

gabí (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜊᜒ)

1. evening, night

Derived terms

• araw-gabi
• bakaw-gabi
• gabi-gabi
• gabihin
• gumabi
• hatinggabi
• kagabi
• kinagabihan
• magabihan
• magpagabi
• magpakagabi
• panggabi
• simbang-gabi

 

Etymology 2

From Proto-Philippine *gabi. Cognate with Mayoyao Ifugao gabi, Hanunoo gabi, and Cebuano gabi.

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡabi/

Noun

gabi (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜊᜒ)

1. taro plant (Colocasia esculenta)

Derived terms

• gabi-gabihan
• gabihan
• gabing-uwak

 

See also

• n.g.