combi
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police combi in Belgium
English
Etymology
Clipping of combination.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɒmbi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒmbi
Noun
combi (plural combis or combies)
- (aviation) An aircraft adapted to carry either cargo or passengers, or both at once.
- (attributively) Combination.
- My old combi boiler broke down.
- A combination boiler.
- 2013 July 9, Adrian, “Re: OT Are all heating engineers touchy?”, in uk.d-i-y (Usenet):
- The combi at our last place was just fine for rads and showers. The biggest restriction was the speed of filling the bath...
- (South Africa) Alternative form of kombi
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
Either shortened from combinatiewagen or combinatie, or borrowed from German Kombi, used in Volkswagen Kombi (whence also Afrikaans kombi and South African English kombi).
Pronunciation
Noun
combi m (plural combi's, diminutive combieke n)
- combination, combi
- minivan, kombi
- Synonym: combinatiewagen
- (Belgium) police van
References
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
combi n (uncountable)
Declension
declension of combi (singular only)
Spanish
Noun
combi m (plural combis)
Further reading
- “combi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28