obi

obi

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Obispeño.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Obispeño terms

• IPA^(key): /ˈoʊbi/
• Rhymes: -oʊbi

Borrowed from Japanese 帯 (obi, “belt”).

obi (plural obi or obis)

1. A sash worn with a kimono.
   • 1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Vintage, published 1998, page 29:

     The broad obi tied around her middle was orange and yellow. I'd never seen such elegant clothing.

   • 2001, Kikue Yamakawa, Kate Wildman Nakai, Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life:

     They had known nothing of woolen cloth, but now the popularity of obi made of imported grogram spread like wildfire. This popularity produced various stories in its wake.

2. A strip of paper looped around a book or other product.

obi (countable and uncountable, plural obis)

1. Alternative form of obeah.

• BOI, Bio, Boi, IBO, IOB, Ibo, bio, bio-, bio., boi

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɔ.βi]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɔ.bi]

Inherited from Old Catalan olbi, from Latin alveus.

obi m (plural obis)

1. trough (container for feeding or watering animals)

   Synonym: com

2. u-shaped valley, trough valley, glacial trough

   Synonym: com

obi m (plural obis)

1. obi (sash worn with a kimono)

• “obi” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “obi”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “obi”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Portuguese ouvir. Cognate with Kabuverdianu obi.

obi

1. to hear

• IPA^(key): [ˈobi]
• Hyphenation: obi
• Rhymes: -bi

Clipping and -i diminutive of objektív (“camera lens”).

obi (plural obik)

1. (photography, informal) camera lens, photographic lens, objective

   Synonyms: objektív, optika

Ob (“[the river] Ob”) +‎ -i (adjective-forming suffix)

obi (not comparable)

1. of, from, or related to the river Ob or its watershed

• Ob-Ugric languages (Wikipedia)

óbi

1. The heart, the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body.^[1]
2. The location of feelings and intuitions.

Borrowed from Japanese 帯 (obi, “belt”).

• IPA^(key): /o.bi/
• Hyphenation: o‧bi

obi (uncountable)

1. an obi (sash worn with a kimono)

Borrowed from Japanese 帯 (obi, “belt”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.bi/
• Rhymes: -ɔbi
• Hyphenation: ò‧bi

obi m (invariable)

1. an obi (sash worn with a kimono)

• chimono

• obi in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• -bio, bio, bio-

obi

1. Rōmaji transcription of おび

• uví (Barlavento)

From Portuguese ouvir.

obi

1. (Sotavento) hear
2. (Sotavento) listen
3. (Sotavento) obey

• Brüser, Martina, dos Reis Santos, André, Lang, Jürgen (2002) Dicionário do Crioulo da Ilha de Santiago (Cabo Verde) : com equivalentes de tradução em alemão e português / Wörterbuch des Kreols der Insel Santiago (Kapverde), →ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

obī

1. second-person singular active imperative of obeō

From ubi.

obi

1. yam

Borrowed from Japanese 帯.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.bi/
• Rhymes: -ɔbi
• Syllabification: o‧bi

obi n (indeclinable)

1. obi (sash worn with a kimono)
2. obi (strip of paper looped around a book or other product)

• obi in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• obi in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from Japanese 帯 (obi).

obi m (plural obis)

1. obi (sash worn with a kimono)
2. obi (strip of paper)

Borrowed from Yoruba obì.

obi m (plural obis)

1. (Bahia) synonym of noz-de-cola (“kola nut”)

• “obi”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “obi”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

obi

1. (accusative singular of ob) me
   • 1931, Arie de Jong, Gramat Volapüka, § 256:

     Ramenolös vabi, plidö! ad blinön obi lü stajon!

     Call a cab, please, to take me to the station.

   • 1940, “Pro yunanef Nedänik”, in Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, page 38:

     Äsagom obe, das övisitom obi.

     He told me that he would visit me.

From Japanese 帯 (obi, “obi; sash worn with kimono”).

obi

1. belt (clothing)

• 真田信治 [Shinji Sanada] (2015) “宜蘭クレオールにおけるsound substitutionについて [On the sound substitution of Yilan Creole]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2]

From ò- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bí (“to give birth to”), literally “That who gives birth”.

IPA^(key): /ò.bí/

òbí

1. (usually in the plural) parent

Cognate with Itsekiri óbì, Igala óbì. Possible cognates include Nupe ebì, Aghem ébiá. Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ó-bì. A common folk etymology used in traditional prayers identifies it as from o- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bì (“to remove, to spue”), literally “That which removes (impurities)”

IPA^(key): /ō.bì/

obì

1. kola nut

• olóbì

• orógbó

• → Portuguese: obi