bibi

From Hindi बीबी (bībī), from Classical Persian بی‌بی (bī-bī).

bibi (plural bibis)

1. (India) A grandmother.
2. (India, obsolete) A European woman in British India; sometimes a married man's mistress.
   • 2010, Stephen Markel, Tushara Bindu Gude, India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, page 59:

     The bibis of European men were treated in the same way as upper-class Muslim women, that is, they were kept hidden from view and did not mingle socially with men.

• beebee

• bibiji

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bibiʀ

IPA^(key): /bibi/

bibi

1. lip

bibî

1. mouth

From Persian بی‌بی (bi-bi).

• IPA^(key): [biˈbi]

• Audio (Baku)

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• Hyphenation: bi‧bi

bibi (definite accusative bibini, plural bibilər)

1. paternal aunt ("syster of one's father")

   Coordinate terms: əmi (“maternal uncle”), dayı (“maternal uncle”), xala (“paternal aunt”)

• əmioğlu (“male paternal cousin”)
• əmiqızı (“female paternal cousin”)
• dayıoğlu (“male maternal cousin”)
• dayıqızı (“female paternal cousin”)
• qardaşoğlu (“fraternal nephew”)
• qardaşqızı (“fraternal niece”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbibi/

bibi

1. egg

   Synonym: bardi

• Page 61 of Zuckermann, Ghil'ad, Emmalene Richards and the Barngarla (2021), Mangiri Yarda (Healthy Country: Barngarla Wellbeing and Nature), Adelaide: Revivalistics Press.
• Goldsworthy, Anna (2014), Voices of the land: In Port Augusta, an Israeli linguist is helping the Barngarla people reclaim their language, The Monthly.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bibi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbibi/, [ˈbi.bi]
• Hyphenation: bi‧bi

bíbi (Basahan spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ)

1. clam (freshwater type)

   Synonym: punaw

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiʔbiʔ/, [ˈbiʔ.biʔ]
• Hyphenation: bi‧bi

bîbî (Basahan spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ)

1. (archaic) to pray

   Synonyms: adyi, arang

• Hyphenation: bi‧bi
• IPA^(key): /ˈbibi/, [ˈbi.bɪ]

Compare Hiligaynon bibi and Tagalog bibe.

bíbi (Badlit spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ)

1. a duck; any member of the form taxon of ducks

   Synonyms: pato, itik

Unknown.

bíbi (Badlit spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ)

1. an edible saltwater clam, Venerupis philippinarum

Borrowed from French bibi.

• IPA^(key): /bi.bi/

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• Hyphenation: bi‧bi

bibi

1. (informal, Belgium) yours truly (I, me or myself)

   Synonyms: ik, ikzelf

The accompanying verb is conjugated in the 3rd person singular. The word also has a diminutive: bibieke.

• IPA^(key): /bi.bi/

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bibi (invariable)

1. dual-mode

bibi m (plural bibis)

1. a small, lady's hat
2. a bauble or trinket

bibi

1. (informal) yours truly (I, me or myself)

• moi
• ma pomme

• “bibi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Portuguese beber. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bebi.

bibi

1. to drink

Compare Cebuano bibi.

bíbi

1. duck

Unknown.

bîbî or bíbì

1. shore; beach

• IPA^(key): [ˈbibi]
• Hyphenation: bi‧bi
• Rhymes: -bi

bibi (plural bibik)

1. (childish) (minor) cut, wound

   Synonyms: seb, sérülés, sebesülés, (minor) karcolás

2. (informal) something amiss, defect, problem, hitch, snag

• bibi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• bibi in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

From Malay bibi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbibi/, [ˈbi.bi]

bibi (first-person possessive bibiku, second-person possessive bibimu, third-person possessive bibinya)

1. (formal) aunt

   Synonym: tante

   Antonym: paman

2. elderly woman (assumed have similar age to her/his aunt or based on appearance)
3. (chiefly Jakarta, derogatory) female servant; maid

• (mother's older sister): bude, encang
• (father's older sister): bude, encang
• (mother's younger sister): bulik, encing
• (father's younger sister): bulik, encing

bibi

1. Rōmaji transcription of びび

bibī

1. first-person singular perfect active indicative of bibō

Possibly Borrowed from Persian بی‌بی.[1] Compare Hindi बीबी (bībī).[2]

bibi f (nominative plural bibǎ)

1. aunt

• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e bib/i, -ǎ ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN
• Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “bibi”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22

Compare Malay bebek and Tagalog bibe.

bibi

1. duck

Short for biberón.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbibi/ [ˈbi.β̞i]
• Rhymes: -ibi
• Syllabification: bi‧bi

bibi m (plural bibis)

1. (colloquial) baby bottle

• (abbreviation) Bi.

Borrowed from Omani Arabic بيبي (bībi), from Persian بی‌بی (bi-bi).

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bibi (ma class, plural mabibi)

1. lady; mistress (female master or the female equivalent of a gentleman)
2. Mrs.
3. grandmother
4. (card games) queen

• bwana

• kibibi (“young lady”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbi.bi]

bibi

1. any of several fish in Tetraodontidae and Ostraciidae

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

bibi

1. goat

bibi

1. (anatomy) chin

From Ottoman Turkish بی بی (bîbî), from Persian بی‌بی (bi-bi).

• IPA^(key): /biˈbi/
• Hyphenation: bi‧bi

bibi (definite accusative bibiyi, plural bibiler)

1. (colloquial) paternal aunt (sister of someone's father)

• hala

• teyze

Short for a̱bi + a̱bi.

• IPA^(key): /bíbí/

bibi

1. graves

bibi

1. duck