iba

iba

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Iban.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiba/, [ˈʔɪbʌ]
• Hyphenation: i‧ba

íba m (plural ibitté f or ibáabu m)

1. foot, leg
2. means of travel

• (foot, leg): gabá (“hand, arm”)

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “ìba”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• Hyphenation: i‧ba
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔibaʔ/, [ˈʔi.baʔ]

ibà

1. bilimbi, Averrhoa bilimbi

• Hyphenation: i‧ba
• IPA^(key): /ʔiˈba/, [ʔiˈba]

ibá (intensified ibahon)

1. different; distinct

   Synonym: lain

ibá

1. the others; the rest (other people)
2. inclusion; inclosing; incorporating

   Synonym: ayon

iba

1. the cucumber tree (Averrhoa bilimbi); a fruit-bearing tree of the genus Averrhoa of the family Oxalidaceae
2. the fruit of this tree

Often confused with ambi.

• abi

iba

1. Romanization of 𐌹𐌱𐌰

From Malay iba (“pity”), probably from Pali ibbha (“menial”).

• IPA^(key): /i.ba/
• Hyphenation: i‧ba

iba

1. pity

• “iba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

iba

1. (Banawá) to put, place

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

iba

1. digging stick

From Common Bantu *ìbá.

ibá (plural abá)

1. oil palm tree

• mbá (“palm nut”)

• Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

Cognate with Yoruba ibà, Ekiti Yoruba ịbà, Igbo iba, Ayere iba, Gade iba, Nupe eba, and Igala íbáà, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ɪ́-bà

• IPA^(key): /ī.bà/

ibà

1. malaria

• ara gbígbóna (“fever”)

iba

1. jaguar (animal)

• Antoine Guillaume, Hierarchical Agreement and Split Intransitivity in Reyesano (2009)

From Proto-Bantu *-jíba.

-îba (infinitive kwîba, perfective (Rwanda) -îbye or (Rundi) -îvye)

1. to steal

• umwibyi (Rwanda) / umwivyi (Rundi)

• IPA^(key): /ˈiba/

iba

1. only

• “iba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈiba/ [ˈi.β̞a]

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• Rhymes: -iba
• Syllabification: i‧ba
• Homophone: IVA

iba

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ir

From Proto-Bantu *-jíba.

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-iba (infinitive kuiba)

1. to steal
2. to plagiarize

In some dialects, this verb may conjugate like a monosyllabic verb; see Appendix:Swahili verbs for those conjugated forms.

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -ibia (“to steal from”)
  • Passive: -ibwa (“be stolen”)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ibah (“companion, close relative, other one”), from Proto-Austronesian *ibaS (“companion, close relative, other one”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔiˈba/, [ʔɪˈba]
• Hyphenation: i‧ba

ibá (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜊ)

1. another; different one

ibá (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜊ)

1. different

   Synonyms: naiiba, di-kapareho

2. another; some other
3. new

   Synonyms: bago, nababago

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔibaʔ/, [ˈʔi.bɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: i‧ba

ibà (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜊ)

1. Otaheite gooseberry; Phyllanthus acidus (tree and fruit)

   Synonyms: bangkiling, karmay

From Proto-Southern Philippine *íbaʔ (“tree with sour fruit”). Compare Bikol Central iba and Cebuano iba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔiba/, [ˈʔi.bɐ]
• Hyphenation: i‧ba

iba (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜊ)

1. bilimbi (tree and fruit)

   Synonym: kamyas

• “iba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*ibah”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
• Zorc, David Paul (1985) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 4, page 173

• ịbà (Ekiti)

Cognate with Igbo iba, Ayere iba, Gade iba, Nupe eba, and Igala íbáà, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ɪ́-bà

• IPA^(key): /ī.bà/

ibà

1. fever

   Synonym: òjòjò

2. malaria, malarial fever

• IPA^(key): /ì.bà/

ìbà

1. praise, reverence, adoration; homage

• júbà (“to pay homage or reverence to”)

• IPA^(key): /ì.bá/

ìbá

1. would, ought to

ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ ba (“to lie in ambush, to hide”)

• IPA^(key): /ì.bā/

ìba

1. the act of ambushing someone
2. ambush, hiding

i- (“non-gerundive nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bá (“to meet, to encounter”)

• IPA^(key): /ī.bá/

ibá

1. The act of meeting someone
2. meeting

   Synonym: ìpàdé

3. chance encounter

• àbápàdé

• IPA^(key): /ì.bā/

ìba

1. a little amount, small portion

Compare with baba

• IPA^(key): /ī.bā/

iba

1. (Ọwọ, Usẹn) father

   Synonyms: bàbá, bàá, bà, baba

• iye (“mother”)

• ibaba (“paternal grandfather”)