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Translingual
Symbol
tib
- (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Tibetan.
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of tibia.
Noun
tib (plural tibs)
- (medicine, informal) A tibia.
See also
Etymology 2
Unknown; perhaps from a pet form of Isabel.
Noun
tib (plural tibs)
- (obsolete) A working-class woman.
- (obsolete) A prostitute.
c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. , London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, , published 1609, →OCLC, [Act 4, scene 6]:every Coystril that comes inquiring for his Tib
1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:But this woman was, he thought, no tib, no purveyor of holy mutton.
- (obsolete) A young girl, a sweetheart.
Anagrams
Lapaguía-Guivini Zapotec
Etymology
Akin to Zaniza Zapotec tib.
Numeral
tib
- one
References
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Arabic طِبّ (ṭibb). Compare Turkish tıp.
Noun
tib f
- medicine (field of study)
Declension
Related terms
Uzbek
Etymology
Inherited from Chagatai طب, from Arabic طِبّ (ṭibb).
Noun
tib (plural tiblar)
- medicine
Related terms
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English tubbe.
Pronunciation
Noun
tib (plural tibbès)
- tub
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72
Zaniza Zapotec
Etymology
Akin to Lapaguía-Guivini Zapotec tib.
Numeral
tib
- one