tb

See also: Tb, TB, and ТВ

English

Noun

tb (plural tbs)

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of throwback (“something that evokes memories”).
tb to when we would meet up for sushi every weekend
- 2022 September 21, @Zaynabj03, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 December 2023:
  snapchat memories keeps attacking me with tbs to when i was aggressively liberal😑😑😑
- 2022 October 25, “Hot take: it's wrong to constantly call yourself fat in front of your friends and 99% of the time your reasons for doing so are not as innocent as y'all try to make it out to be.”, in Reddit‎^[2], r/EDAnonymous, archived from the original on 26 December 2023:
  Tb to my friend sending me a pic of their skinny waist and thigh gap w the caption "i'm huge"
- 2023 March 4, @IzayasDemons, Twitter‎^[3], archived from the original on 26 December 2023:
  Tb to how I randomly got a selfie with Theresa Jarvis and ngl we look so cute in it.
- 2023 September 29, u/NA_1-9_AT_MSI, “zip that includes solo solo has surfaced but it's password protected😭”, in Reddit‎^[4], r/playboicarti, archived from the original on 26 December 2023:
  Tb to when someone on 4chan cracked the early mbdtf version zip and said „idk why yall want this n****r music anyway”

Catalan

Adverb

tb

(Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of també (“also”)

Demotic

Etymology

From Egyptian

(ḏbt).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtʼoːβə/

Noun

⁠⁠ f

brick

Descendants

Bohairic Coptic: ⲧⲱⲃⲓ (tōbi)
Sahidic Coptic: ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe), ⲧⲱⲱⲃⲉ (tōōbe)
- → Arabic: طُوب (ṭūb)
  - Egyptian Arabic: طوب (ṭūb), طوبة (ṭūba)
  - Juba Arabic: tub
  - Moroccan Arabic: طوب (ṭūb), طوبة (ṭūba)
  - → Amharic: ጡብ (ṭub), እጡብ (ʾəṭub)
  - → Catalan: tova
  - → French: toub
  - → Portuguese: adobe
  - → Spanish: adobe
    - → Aragonese: adoba
    - → Asturian: adobe
    - → Basque: adobe
    - → Dutch: adobe
    - → English: adobe
    - → Esperanto: adobo
    - → French: adobe
    - → Galician: adobe
    - → Irish: adóib
    - → Italian: adobe
    - → Norwegian: adobe
    - → Serbo-Croatian: adobe / адобе
    - → Tagalog: adobe

References

Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 617

Hungarian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈteːbeː]

Noun

tb (usually uncountable, plural tb-k)

abbreviation of társadalombiztosítás (“social security”)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tb	tb-k
accusative	tb-t	tb-ket
dative	tb-nek	tb-knek
instrumental	tb-vel	tb-kkel
causal-final	tb-ért	tb-kért
translative	tb-vé	tb-kké
terminative	tb-ig	tb-kig
essive-formal	tb-ként	tb-kként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tb-ben	tb-kben
superessive	tb-n	tb-ken
adessive	tb-nél	tb-knél
illative	tb-be	tb-kbe
sublative	tb-re	tb-kre
allative	tb-hez	tb-khez
elative	tb-ből	tb-kből
delative	tb-ről	tb-kről
ablative	tb-től	tb-ktől
non-attributive possessive – singular	tb-é	tb-ké
non-attributive possessive – plural	tb-éi	tb-kéi

Possessive forms of tb
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tb-m	tb-im
2nd person sing.	tb-d	tb-id
3rd person sing.	tb-je	tb-i
1st person plural	tb-nk	tb-ink
2nd person plural	tb-tek	tb-itek
3rd person plural	tb-jük	tb-ik

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɐ̃ˈbẽj̃/ [tɐ̃ˈbẽɪ̯̃]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐ̃ˈbɐ̃j̃/

Adverb

tb

(Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of também

Spanish

Adverb

tb

(Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of también (“also”)