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Basque
Pronunciation
Verb
abes
- Short form of abestu (“to sing”).
Danish
Noun
abes c
- indefinite genitive singular of abe
Latin
Verb
abes
- second-person singular present active imperative/indicative of absum
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From French abaisser.
Pronunciation
Verb
abes
- Medial form of abese
Mirandese
Noun
abes
- plural of abe
Portuguese
Verb
abes
- second-person singular present subjunctive of abar
Sardinian
Pronunciation
Noun
abes f pl
- plural of ape
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish عبث, from Arabic عَبَث (ʕabaṯ).
Adjective
abes
- useless, pointless
- unreasonable
References
- “abes”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عبث”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1281