arb

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See also: ARB, Arb., and arƀ

English

Etymology

Clipping.

Pronunciation

Noun

arb (countable and uncountable, plural arbs)

  1. (finance, trading) The act of or potential for arbitrage.
  2. (countable, finance, trading) One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.
  3. (countable, informal) An arboretum.
    • 2005, Adam Zang, Jendrey Julie, Chris Mason, Carleton College:
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Verb

arb (third-person singular simple present arbs, present participle arbing, simple past and past participle arbed)

  1. (finance, trading, transitive) To engage in arbitrage.

Derived terms

Anagrams

Irish

Alternative forms

  • ar (used before consonant sounds)
  • ar b’ (superseded)

Particle

arb (copular form used before adjective, adverb, or pronoun beginning with vowels)

  1. Introduces an indirect relative clause; present/future tense
    duine arb ionann é agus gach duine eile ― a person who is the same as everyone else
    duine arb as an mbaile céanna leat féin é ― a person who is from the same town as yourself
    an fear arb é a mhac an t-iascaire ― the man whose son is the fisherman
Irish copular forms
Simple copular forms
Present/future
Affirmative Negative Interrogative Neg. inter.
Main clauses is ní an nach
Direct relative clauses nach
Indirect relative clauses ar, arbv
Other subordinate clauses gur, gurbv an nach
Past/conditional
Affirmative Negative Interrogative Neg. inter.
Main clauses ba, b’v níor, níorbhv ar, arbhv nár, nárbhv
Direct relative clauses ba, abv nár, nárbhv
Indirect relative clauses ar, arbhv
Other subordinate clauses gur, gurbhv ar, arbhv nár, nárbhv
Present subjunctive
Affirmative Negative
gura, gurabv nára, nárabv
    Compound copular forms
Base word Present/future Past/conditional
cá cár, cárbv cár, cárbhv
cé cér, cérbv cér, cérbhv
dá dá mba, dá mb’v
de/do dar, darbv dar, darbhv
faoi faoinar, faoinarbv faoinar, faoinarbhv
i inar, inarbv inar, inarbhv
le lenar, lenarbv lenar, lenarbhv
má más má ba, má b’v
mura mura, murabv murar, murarbhv
ó (prep.) ónar, ónarbv ónar, ónarbhv
ó (conj.) ós ó ba, ó b’v
trí trínar, trínarbv trínar, trínarbhv
v Used before vowel sounds

References

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *arpa.

Noun

arb

  1. lot, fate, destiny

Declension

Inflection of arb (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing. arb
genitive sing. arban
partitive sing. arbad
partitive plur. arboid
singular plural
nominative arb arbad
accusative arban arbad
genitive arban arboiden
partitive arbad arboid
essive-instructive arban arboin
translative arbaks arboikš
inessive arbas arboiš
elative arbaspäi arboišpäi
illative arbaha arboihe
adessive arbal arboil
ablative arbalpäi arboilpäi
allative arbale arboile
abessive arbata arboita
comitative arbanke arboidenke
prolative arbadme arboidme
approximative I arbanno arboidenno
approximative II arbannoks arboidennoks
egressive arbannopäi arboidennopäi
terminative I arbahasai arboihesai
terminative II arbalesai arboilesai
terminative III arbassai —
additive I arbahapäi arboihepäi
additive II arbalepäi arboilepäi
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