Azerbaijani edit

Other scripts
Cyrillic гаиб
Abjad

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic غَائِب (ḡāʔib).

Adjective edit

qaib (comparative daha qaib, superlative ən qaib)

  1. absent

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • qaib” in Obastan.com.

White Hmong edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *Kəi (chicken), likely borrowed from Chinese (, id). Compare also Proto-Tai *kajᴮ (id), whence Lao ໄກ່ (kai, id) and Thai ไก่ (gài, id).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

qaib (classifier: tus)

  1. chicken

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 257-8.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, pages 97; 281.