See also: MAb, Mab, mAb, måb, and -mab

Translingual

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Symbol

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mab

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

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English

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Noun

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mab (plural mabs)

  1. (obsolete) A slattern.
  2. (obsolete) A cab; a hackney.

Verb

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mab (third-person singular simple present mabs, present participle mabbing, simple past and past participle mabbed)

  1. (obsolete) To dress untidily.

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Noah Webster (1828) “mab”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: [], volume II (J–Z), New York, N.Y.: [] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe [], →OCLC.

  • (cab): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
  • (cab): 1909, John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: "A mab is a jingling jarvey [] "

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Breton

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Etymology

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From Middle Breton mab, from Old Breton map, from Proto-Brythonic *mab, from Proto-Celtic *makʷos.

Noun

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mab m (plural mibien)

  1. son

Inflection

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Mutation of mab
unmutated soft aspirate hard
singular mab vab unchanged unchanged
plural mibien vibien unchanged unchanged

Cornish

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Etymology

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From Old Cornish mab, from Proto-Brythonic *mab, from Proto-Celtic *makʷos. Cognate with Breton and Welsh mab, Gaulish mapos, and Irish, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic mac.

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Noun

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mab m (plural mebyon)

  1. son
  2. boy
    Synonym: maw

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Mutation

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Mutation of mab
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
mab vab unchanged unchanged fab vab

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Welsh

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Etymology

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From Middle Welsh and Old Welsh map, from Proto-Brythonic *mab, from Proto-Celtic *makʷos.

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Noun

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mab m (plural meibion)

  1. boy, son, infant, child (of either sex), minor, youth
  2. descendant
  3. man, male

Coordinate terms

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  • mam (mother)
  • merch (daughter)
  • tad (father)

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of mab
radical soft nasal aspirate
mab fab unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mab”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies