bibi

From Hindi बीबी (bībī), from Classical Persian بی‌بی (bī-bī).

bibi (plural bibis)

1. (India) A grandmother.
2. (India, obsolete) A European woman in British India; sometimes a married man's mistress.
   • 2010, Stephen Markel, Tushara Bindu Gude, India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, page 59:

     The bibis of European men were treated in the same way as upper-class Muslim women, that is, they were kept hidden from view and did not mingle socially with men.

• beebee

• bibiji

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bibiʀ

• IPA^(key): /bibi/

bibi

1. lip

bibî

1. mouth

From Persian بی‌بی (bi-bi).

• IPA^(key): [biˈbi]

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• Hyphenation: bi‧bi

bibi (definite accusative bibini, plural bibilər)

1. paternal aunt ("sister of one's father")

   Coordinate terms: əmi (“maternal uncle”), dayı (“maternal uncle”), xala (“paternal aunt”)

• əmioğlu (“male paternal cousin”)
• əmiqızı (“female paternal cousin”)
• dayıoğlu (“male maternal cousin”)
• dayıqızı (“female paternal cousin”)
• qardaşoğlu (“fraternal nephew”)
• qardaşqızı (“fraternal niece”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbibi/

bibi

1. egg

   Synonym: bardi

• Page 61 of Zuckermann, Ghil'ad, Emmalene Richards and the Barngarla (2021), Mangiri Yarda (Healthy Country: Barngarla Wellbeing and Nature), Adelaide: Revivalistics Press.
• Goldsworthy, Anna (2014), Voices of the land: In Port Augusta, an Israeli linguist is helping the Barngarla people reclaim their language, The Monthly.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bibi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbibi/ [ˈbi.bi]
• Hyphenation: bi‧bi

bíbi (Basahan spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ)

1. clam (freshwater type)

   Synonym: punaw

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiʔbiʔ/ [ˈbiʔ.biʔ]
• Hyphenation: bi‧bi

bîbî (Basahan spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ)

1. alternative form of mibi

• Hyphenation: bi‧bi
• IPA^(key): /ˈbibi/ [ˈbi.bɪ]

Borrowed from Malay bebek.

bíbi (Badlit spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ)

1. a duck; any member of the form taxon of ducks

   Synonyms: pato, itik

Unknown.

bíbi (Badlit spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ)

1. an edible saltwater clam, Venerupis philippinarum

Borrowed from French bibi.

• IPA^(key): /bi.bi/

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• Hyphenation: bi‧bi

bibi

1. (informal, Belgium) yours truly (I, me or myself)

   Synonyms: ik, ikzelf

The accompanying verb is conjugated in the 3rd person singular. The word also has a diminutive: bibieke.

• IPA^(key): /bi.bi/

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bibi (invariable)

1. dual-mode

bibi m (plural bibis)

1. a small, lady's hat
2. a bauble or trinket

bibi

1. (informal) yours truly (I, me or myself)
   • 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN:

     Tu vas chez H&M. Et le crétin qui range derrière toi, c'est bibi.

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• moi
• ma pomme

• “bibi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Portuguese beber. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bebi.

bibi

1. to drink

Borrowed from Malay bebek.

bíbi

1. duck

Unknown.

bîbî or bíbì

1. shore; beach

Probably a nominalization of the present participle (formed with -i, a variant of -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 1566. The term developed alongside bibe through a semantic split.^[1]

For phonetically similar equivalents of the “minor injury” sense (sense 1), see German Wehweh, Wehwehchen, French bobo, Czech bebé, bebíčko.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbibi]
• Hyphenation: bi‧bi
• Rhymes: -bi

bibi (plural bibik)

2. (now often childish) disease, illness, especially a minor injury or wound

   Synonyms: bibe, baj, betegség, seb, sérülés, sebesülés

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

   Synonyms: bibe, gyenge, gyengeség, gyenge pont

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

   Synonyms: bibe, bökkenő, probléma

• bibi in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• bibi 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).

From Malay bibi.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.bi/, [ˈbi.bi]

bibi (plural bibi-bibi)

1. (formal) aunt

   Synonym: tante

   Antonym: paman

2. elderly woman (assumed have similar age to her/his aunt or based on appearance)
3. (chiefly Jakarta, derogatory) female servant; maid

• (mother's older sister): bude, encang
• (father's older sister): bude, encang
• (mother's younger sister): bulik, encing
• (father's younger sister): bulik, encing

bibi

1. Rōmaji transcription of びび

bibī

1. first-person singular perfect active indicative of bibō

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bibi (plural bibi-bibi)

1. (Pontianak) madurese female seller or peddler

Possibly Borrowed from Persian بی‌بی.^[1] Compare Hindi बीबी (bībī).^[2]

bibi f (nominative plural bibǎ)

1. aunt

• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e bib/i, -ǎ ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN
• Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “bibi”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22

From Malay bebek.

bibi

1. duck

Short for biberón.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbibi/ [ˈbi.β̞i]
• Rhymes: -ibi
• Syllabification: bi‧bi

bibi m (plural bibis)

1. (colloquial) baby bottle

• (abbreviation) Bi.

Borrowed from Omani Arabic بيبي (bībi), from Persian بی‌بی (bi-bi).

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bibi class V (plural mabibi class VI)

1. lady; mistress (female master or the female equivalent of a gentleman)
2. Mrs.
3. grandmother
4. (card games) queen

• bwana

• kibibi (“young lady”)

Playing cards in Swahili · karata za kucheza (layout · text)
ree, rea, rei	mbili	tatu	nne	tano	sita	saba
nane	tisa	kumi	ghulamu, mzungu wa tatu	malkia, mzungu wa pili, bibi	mfalme, mzungu wa nne, basha	jokari

• IPA^(key): [ˈbi.bi]

bibi

1. any of several fish in Tetraodontidae and Ostraciidae

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

bibi

1. goat

bibi

1. (anatomy) chin

From Ottoman Turkish بی بی (bîbî), from Persian بی‌بی (bi-bi).

• IPA^(key): /biˈbi/
• Hyphenation: bi‧bi

bibi (definite accusative bibiyi, plural bibiler)

1. (colloquial) paternal aunt (sister of someone's father)

• hala

• teyze

Short for a̱bi + a̱bi.

• IPA^(key): /bíbí/

bibi

1. graves

From Malay bebek. Compare Rukai bibi & Saisiyat bibi.

bibi

1. duck