iba

Clipping of English or Iban Iban.

iba

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Iban terms

• 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)‎^[1], 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 hiba (“pity”), probably from Pali ibbha (“menial”) and Sanskrit इभ्य (ibhya).

• 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, 2003–2025

• 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.

Conjugation of -iba
Positive present -naiba Subjunctive -ibe Negative -ibi Imperative singular iba
Infinitives
Positive kuiba Negative kutoiba
Imperatives
Singular iba Plural ibeni
Tensed forms
Habitual huiba Positive past positive subject concord + -liiba Negative past negative subject concord + -kuiba
Positive present (positive subject concord + -naiba) Singular Plural 1st person ninaiba/naiba tunaiba 2nd person unaiba mnaiba 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anaiba wanaiba other classes positive subject concord + -naiba
Negative present (negative subject concord + -ibi) Singular Plural 1st person siibi hatuibi 2nd person huibi hamwibi 3rd person m-wa(I/II) haibi hawaibi other classes negative subject concord + -ibi
Positive future positive subject concord + -taiba Negative future negative subject concord + -taiba
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -ibe) Singular Plural 1st person niibe tuibe 2nd person uibe mwibe 3rd person m-wa(I/II) aibe waibe other classes positive subject concord + -ibe
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -siibe Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngeiba Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singeiba Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngaliiba Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singaliiba
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -aiba) Singular Plural 1st person naiba twaiba 2nd person waiba mwaiba 3rd person m-wa(I/II) aiba waiba m-mi(III/IV) waiba yaiba ji-ma(V/VI) laiba yaiba ki-vi(VII/VIII) chaiba vyaiba n(IX/X) yaiba zaiba u(XI) waiba see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwaiba pa(XVI) paiba mu(XVIII) mwaiba
Perfect positive subject concord + -meiba "Already" positive subject concord + -meshaiba "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jaiba "If/When" positive subject concord + -kiiba "If not" positive subject concord + -sipoiba Consecutive kaiba / positive subject concord + -kaiba Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kaibe
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -niiba -tuiba 2nd person -kuiba -waiba/-kuibeni/-waibeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mwiba -waiba m-mi(III/IV) -uiba -iiba ji-ma(V/VI) -liiba -yaiba ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kiiba -viiba n(IX/X) -iiba -ziiba u(XI) -uiba see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kuiba pa(XVI) -paiba mu(XVIII) -muiba Reflexive -jiiba
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -iba- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -ibaye -ibao m-mi(III/IV) -ibao -ibayo ji-ma(V/VI) -ibalo -ibayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -ibacho -ibavyo n(IX/X) -ibayo -ibazo u(XI) -ibao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -ibako pa(XVI) -ibapo mu(XVIII) -ibamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -iba) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yeiba -oiba m-mi(III/IV) -oiba -yoiba ji-ma(V/VI) -loiba -yoiba ki-vi(VII/VIII) -choiba -vyoiba n(IX/X) -yoiba -zoiba u(XI) -oiba see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -koiba pa(XVI) -poiba mu(XVIII) -moiba
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

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

• Nominal derivations:
  • mwizi (“thief”)
  • wizi (“theft, robbery”)

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔiˈba/ [ʔɪˈba]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: 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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔibaʔ/ [ˈʔiː.bɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -ibaʔ
• Syllabification: 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.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔiba/ [ˈʔiː.bɐ]
• Rhymes: -iba
• Syllabification: 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; et al. (2023) “*ibah”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Zorc, David Paul (1985) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 4, page 173

• Bai

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-jíba.

-iba (infinitive kwiba)

1. to steal

• William Y. Turner (1996) Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[2], Central Africana Limited, page 39

• 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”)