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Bikol Central
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: si‧ba
- IPA(key): /ˈsibaʔ/,
Verb
sibà
- to eat like an animal
- (angry register) to eat; to consume
- Synonym: hablo
Derived terms
See also
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin sepia. Doublet of sépia. Compare Galician xiba and Spanish jibia.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ibɐ
- Hyphenation: si‧ba
Noun
siba f (plural sibas)
- cuttlefish (any squid-like mollusc of the genus Sepia)
- Synonyms: choco, sépia
Romagnol
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin silva(m) (“wood, forest”), accusative of Latin silva (“wood, forest”).
Pronunciation
Noun
siba f (plural sib)
- (archaic) forest
- Synonyms: sélva, bòs-c
- (archaic) hedge
References
- Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 585
Sotho
Verb
siba
- to stop a hole
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsibaʔ/,
- Hyphenation: si‧ba
Noun
sibà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜊ)
- gluttony; voracity; avarice; greediness; voraciousness
- Synonyms: takaw, katakawan, kasakiman, kakamkaman
Derived terms
Ternate
Pronunciation
Noun
siba
- a kind of bird, some kind of small green cockatoo
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh