sabi

Compare Tagalog sabi and Kapampangan sabi.

• Hyphenation: sa‧bi
• IPA^(key): /ˈsabi/

sábi

1. something said; statement
2. mention

   Synonyms: kuno, sambit

sábi

1. to say

   Synonym: taram

Backslang for bisa.

• IPA^(key): /sa.bi/

sabi

1. (back slang, text messaging) can, be able

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.bi/
• Rhymes: -abi
• Hyphenation: sà‧bi

sabi m pl

1. plural of sabio

sabi

1. Rōmaji transcription of さび

Compare Tagalog sabi and Bikol Central sabi.

• Hyphenation: sa‧bi

sabi

1. said

sabi

1. something said; statement

• sab

From Portuguese saber.

• IPA^(key): /sà.bí/

sàbí

1. to know, understand, be skilled at

sàbí

1. skill, expertise, know-how

sabi

1. witness

From Arabic صَبِيّ (ṣabiyy).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.bɪ/

sabi m (plural subien)

1. (dated) boy; male child

   Synonym: tifel

   • 2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:

     Is-sema bagħatlu sabi u s-sultan żamm kelmtu!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• The plural subien remains in common use; see there.

From Portuguese saber.

• IPA^(key): /sà.bi/

sabi

1. to know

• sa (synonym)

From Portuguese saber and Spanish saber and Kabuverdianu sabe.

sabi

1. to know

From Portuguese saber.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.bi/

sabi

1. (transitive) to know
2. (auxiliary) to be able to (of learnt skills)

• Aukan: sabi
• Saramaccan: sábi

sabi

1. knowledge, wisdom

• Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “sabi”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary

From Southern Luzon axis *sábih (“say”). Compare Kapampangan sabi, Hanunoo sabi, Bikol Central sabi, and Masbatenyo sabi. Some speculate that it is from Spanish sabe, the third-person singular present indicative of saber (“to know”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsabi/ , (colloquial) /ˈsabe/
• Rhymes: -abi
• Syllabification: sa‧bi

sabi (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜊᜒ)

1. something said; statement

   Synonyms: pahayag, pangungusap, deklarasyon, wika, (obsolete) bala

2. act of saying something (to someone)

   Synonyms: pagsasalita, pagpapahayag, (obsolete) bala

3. act of telling something (to someone)
4. (colloquial) words; expressions

   Synonym: salita

• “sabi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 168: “Colgar) Sabi (pp) los niños de vnos paños al hombro como vſan las tingianes.”
  • page 217: “Deçir) Sabi (pp) tratando algo”
  • page 253: “Dicho) Sabi (pp) de teſtigo delante de juez”
  • page 398: “Lleuar) Sabi (pp) T. los niños al vſo del tingue colgados ẽ vn paño”
  • page 418: “Mentar) Sabi (pp) lo que otro no quiere o ir”
  • page 537: “Runrun) Sabi (pp) q̃ core por las orejas”
  • page 586: “Tratar) Sabi (pp) alguna coſa entredes”

• basi, siba, bisa

• IPA^(key):

sabi

1. a pair

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Ottoman Turkish صبی (sabiy), Borrowed from Arabic صَبِيّ (ṣabiyy, “boy, lad, youth”).

sabi

1. little child

sabi

1. plural of sabo