sabi

Compare Tagalog sabi and Kapampangan sabi.

• Hyphenation: sa‧bi
• IPA^(key): /ˈsabi/ [ˈsa.bi]

sábi (Basahan spelling ᜐᜊᜒ)

1. something said; statement
2. mention

   Synonyms: kuno, sambit

sábi (Basahan spelling ᜐᜊᜒ)

1. to say

   Synonym: taram

Backslang for bisa.

• IPA^(key): /sa.bi/

sabi

1. (back slang, text messaging) can, be able

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.bi/
• Rhymes: -abi
• Hyphenation: sà‧bi

sabi m pl

1. plural of sabio

sabi

1. Rōmaji transcription of さび

From Sudanese Arabic صاحبي (ṣāḥbi, “my friend”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsabi/, [ˈsa.bɪ]

sabi

1. friend

• Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English‎^[1], 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 168
• Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2010) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 66

Compare Tagalog sabi and Bikol Central sabi.

• Hyphenation: sa‧bi

sabi

1. said; told

sabi

1. something said; statement

• sab (colloquial)

From Portuguese saber. Compare English savvy.

• IPA^(key): /sà.bí/

sàbí

1. to know, understand, be skilled at

sàbí

1. skill, expertise, know-how

• Fyle, Clifford N., Jones, Eldred D. (1980) A Krio-English dictionary, USA: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 321

sabi

1. witness

From Arabic صَبِيّ (ṣabiyy).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.bɪ/

sabi m (plural subien)

1. (dated) boy; male child

   Synonym: tifel

   • 2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:

     Is-sema bagħatlu sabi u s-sultan żamm kelmtu!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• The plural subien remains in common use; see there.

Likely from Portuguese saber.

sabi

1. to know
   • 1983, Kenneth M. Bilby, “How the "older heads" talk: a Jamaican Maroon spirit possession language and its relationship to the creoles of Suriname and Sierra Leone”, in New West Indian Guide, →ISSN, page 70:

     (...) wen u luku na u sjref, u sabi se da sonti a no gudu sonti.

     (...) when you looked at yourself, you knew that that thing was not a good thing.

2. to understand
   • 1983, Kenneth M. Bilby, “How the "older heads" talk: a Jamaican Maroon spirit possession language and its relationship to the creoles of Suriname and Sierra Leone”, in New West Indian Guide, →ISSN, page 71:

     so u sabi ampang onti mi sa se?

     So do you understand completely what I'm going to say?

From Portuguese saber.

• IPA^(key): /sà.bi/

sabi

1. to know
   • 2024 September 5, Helen Oyibo, “'Except crase enta na di kain tin I don do before, I go do if I become govnor of Edo State' - Asue Ighodalo”, in BBC News Pidgin:

     "I advise am for im economic team for eight years, if all those tins e tok I no sabi do dem, how I advise am for eight years?

     I advised him for their economic team for eight years, if all those things I said were things I didn't know, how did I advise him for eight years?

• sa (synonym)

From Portuguese saber and Spanish saber and Kabuverdianu sabe.

sabi

1. to know

From Portuguese saber.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.bi/

sabi

1. (transitive) to know
2. (auxiliary) to be able to (of learnt skills)

• Aukan: sabi
• Saramaccan: sábi

sabi

1. knowledge, wisdom

• Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “sabi”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary

From Southern Luzon axis *sábih (“say”). Compare Kapampangan sabi, Hanunoo sabi, Bikol Central sabi, and Masbatenyo sabi. Some speculate that it is from Spanish sabe, the third-person singular present indicative of saber (“to know”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsabi/ [ˈsaː.bɪ], (colloquial) /ˈsabe/ [ˈsaː.bɛ]
• Rhymes: -abi
• Syllabification: sa‧bi

sabi (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜊᜒ)

1. something said; statement

   Synonyms: pahayag, pangungusap, deklarasyon, wika, (obsolete) bala

2. act of saying something (to someone)

   Synonyms: pagsasalita, pagpapahayag, (obsolete) bala

3. act of telling something (to someone)
4. (colloquial) words; expressions

   Synonym: salita

• “sabi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 168: “Colgar) Sabi (pp) los niños de vnos paños al hombro como vſan las tingianes.”
  • page 217: “Deçir) Sabi (pp) tratando algo”
  • page 253: “Dicho) Sabi (pp) de teſtigo delante de juez”
  • page 398: “Lleuar) Sabi (pp) T. los niños al vſo del tingue colgados ẽ vn paño”
  • page 418: “Mentar) Sabi (pp) lo que otro no quiere o ir”
  • page 537: “Runrun) Sabi (pp) q̃ core por las orejas”
  • page 586: “Tratar) Sabi (pp) alguna coſa entredes”

• basi, siba, bisa

• IPA^(key): [ˈsa.bi]

sabi

1. a pair

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

From Ottoman Turkish صبی (sabiy), Borrowed from Arabic صَبِيّ (ṣabiyy, “boy, lad, youth”).

sabi

1. little child

sabi

1. plural of sabo