tib

tib

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Tibetan.

• IPA^(key): /tɪb/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪb

Abbreviation of tibia.

tib (plural tibs)

1. (medicine, informal) A tibia.

• fib

Unknown; perhaps from a pet form of Isabel.

tib (plural tibs)

1. (obsolete) A working-class woman.
2. (obsolete) A prostitute.
   • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act 4, scene 6]:

     every Coystril that comes inquiring for his Tib

   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:

     But this woman was, he thought, no tib, no purveyor of holy mutton.

3. (obsolete) A young girl, a sweetheart.

• B.I.T., Bti, ITB, TBI, bit

Akin to Zaniza Zapotec tib.

tib

1. one

• Basic Vocabulary, psge 53

From Arabic طِبّ (ṭibb). Compare Turkish tıp.

tib f

1. medicine (field of study)

• tebîb
• tibî

Inherited from Chagatai طب, from Arabic طِبّ (ṭibb).

tib (plural tiblar)

1. medicine

• tibbiy (“medical”)

From Middle English tubbe.

• IPA^(key): /tɪb/

tib (plural tibbès)

1. tub

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72

Akin to Lapaguía-Guivini Zapotec tib.

tib

1. one