gabi

From Tagalog gabi, from Proto-Philippine *gabi.

gabi

1. Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
2. Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
3. Food from a taro plant.

• Baig, Biga, bagi, biga

Cognate with Kaurna kauwi, Pitjantjatjara kapi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡabi/

gabi

1. water

   Synonym: gawoo

• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad (2019). Barngarlidhi Manoo (Speaking Barngarla Together) (Barngarla Alphabet & Picture Book). p.63.
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• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad and Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann (2018). Online Barngarla Dictionary.
• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad (2016). Barngarla Aboriginal Language Dictionary App.
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From Proto-Philippine *gabi.

• Hyphenation: ga‧bi
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡabi/, [ˈɡa.bɪ]

gábi (Badlit spelling ᜄᜊᜒ)

1. taro (Colocasia esculenta)
2. any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
3. the corms of this plant
4. the leaves of this plant used as vegetable

• gabigabi

• biga

• IPA^(key): /ɡabi/

gabi

1. A male marriage class or skin group. A gabi can marry only a yibathaa; his sons will be gambu, and his daughters buuthaa.

From English coffee.

gabi

1. coffee

• Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)
• Dhiirrala Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Language Program St Joseph School Po Box 125 Walgett NSW 2368 Australia
• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary
• (2015) Ma Gamilaraay

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *gabi.

• Hyphenation: ga‧bi
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡabi/, [ˈɡa.bi]

gábi

1. taro

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal, yesterday”), from Proto-Austronesian *ʀabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal”).

gabi

1. night

From Proto-Philippine *gabi.

gabi

1. taro

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal, yesterday”), from Proto-Austronesian *ʀabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal”).

gabi

1. night

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal, yesterday”), from Proto-Austronesian *ʀabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal”). Cognate with Ilocano rabii, Cebuano gabii, Amis lafi (“dinner, evening meal”), and Bima awi, awina (“yesterday”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈbi/ [ɡɐˈbi], (colloquial) /ɡaˈbe/ [ɡɐˈbɛ]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ga‧bi

gabí (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜊᜒ)

1. evening; night

• araw

• → Malay: gabi (“dinner”)

• n.g.

See gabe.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡabi/ [ˈɡa.bɪ]
• Rhymes: -abi
• Syllabification: ga‧bi

gabi (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜊᜒ) (common)

1. Alternative form of gabe

• “gabi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal, yesterday”), from Proto-Austronesian *ʀabiqi (“late afternoon, evening, evening meal”).

gabí

1. night