debe

From Swahili debe.

debe (plural debes)

1. (Kenya) A tin container used for kerosene etc.

debe

1. bow (weapon)

debe

1. inflection of deber:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈde.be/

debe

1. present of deber
2. imperative of deber

dēbē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēbeō

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʲeβʲe]

debe n

1. disagreement
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7^d10

     Do·adbadar sund trá causa pro qua scripta est æpistola .i. irbága ro·bátar leosom eter desciplu et debe; óentu immurgu eter a magistru.

     Here, then is shown the reason for which the epistle was written, i.e. they had had contentions and disagreements between the disciples; unity, however, among their masters.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deibe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Cognate with Bambara dɛ̀bɛn, Eastern Maninkakan dɛ̀bɛ.

debe

1. mat

   Synonym: tenbe

• IPA^(key): /ˈdebe/ [ˈd̪e.β̞e]

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• Rhymes: -ebe
• Syllabification: de‧be

debe

1. inflection of deber:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Omani Arabic دِبّة.^[1]

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debe class V (plural madebe class VI)

1. An oil container holding about four gallons.