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Old Hindi
Etymology
Perhaps इ (i, “this”) + अब (aba, marker of time in adverbs).[1]
Adverb
इब (iba)[2]
- now, at this time
c. 1450 – 1520,
Ravidas :
- भणैं रैदास उदास ताही थैं, इब कछू मोपैं करी न जाई।
आपौ खोयां भगति होत है, तब रहै अंतरि उरझाई॥- bhaṇa͠i raidās udās tāhī tha͠i, ib kachū mopa͠i karī na jāī.
āpau khoyā̃ bhagti hot hai, tab rahai antri urjhāī.
References
- ^ Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 281
- ^ Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “इब”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha