# iba
## Translingual
### Symbol

iba
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Iban.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Iban terms

## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈiba/ [ˈʔɪbʌ]
* Hyphenation: i‧ba

### Noun

íba m (plural ibitté f or ibáabu m)
* foot, leg
* means of travel

#### Coordinate terms

* (foot, leg): gabá (“hand, arm”)

### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “ìba”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

## Bikol Central
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: i‧ba
* IPA: /ˈʔibaʔ/ [ˈʔi.baʔ]

#### Noun

ibà
* bilimbi, Averrhoa bilimbi

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: i‧ba
* IPA: /ʔiˈba/ [ʔiˈba]

#### Adjective

ibá (intensified ibahon)
* different; distinct
    Synonym: lain

#### Noun

ibá
* the others; the rest (other people)
* inclusion; inclosing; incorporating
    Synonym: ayon

##### Derived terms

* ibahan
* ibanan
* kaiba
* kaibahan
* mag-iba

## Cebuano
### Noun

iba
* the cucumber tree (Averrhoa bilimbi); a fruit-bearing tree of the genus Averrhoa of the family Oxalidaceae
* the fruit of this tree

#### Usage notes

Often confused with ambi.

### Anagrams

* abi

## Gothic
### Romanization

iba
* Romanization of 𐌹𐌱𐌰

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay hiba (“pity”), probably from Pali ibbha (“menial”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /i.ba/
* Hyphenation: i‧ba

### Adjective

iba
* pity

#### Derived terms

* beriba-iba
* keibaan
* mengibai
* mengibakan
* pengiba

### Further reading

* “iba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Jamamadí
### Verb

iba
* (Banawá) to put, place

### References

* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Maia
### Noun

iba
* digging stick

## Nzadi
### Etymology

From Common Bantu *ìbá.

### Noun

ibá (plural abá)
* oil palm tree

#### Related terms

* mbá (“palm nut”)

### Further reading

* Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

## Olukumi
### Etymology

Cognate with Yoruba ibà, Ekiti Yoruba ịbà, Igbo iba, Ayere iba, Gade iba, Nupe eba, and Igala íbáà, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ɪ́-bà

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ī.bà/

### Noun

ibà
* malaria

#### Related terms

* ara gbígbóna (“fever”)

## Reyesano
### Noun

iba
* jaguar (animal)

### Further reading

* Antoine Guillaume, Hierarchical Agreement and Split Intransitivity in Reyesano (2009)

## Rwanda-Rundi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jíba.

### Verb

-îba (infinitive kwîba, perfective (Rwanda) -îbye or (Rundi) -îvye)
* to steal

#### Derived terms

* umwibyi (Rwanda) / umwivyi (Rundi)

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈiba/

### Conjunction

iba
* only

### Further reading

* “iba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈiba/ [ˈi.β̞a]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -iba
* Syllabification: i‧ba
* Homophone: IVA

### Verb

iba
* first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ir

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jíba.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-iba (infinitive kuiba)
* to steal
* to plagiarize

#### Usage notes

In some dialects, this verb may conjugate like a monosyllabic verb; see Appendix:Swahili verbs for those conjugated forms.

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -iba :
| Positive present | -naiba |
| Subjunctive | -ibe |
| Negative | -ibi |
| Imperative singular | iba |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kuiba |
| Negative | kutoiba |
Imperatives :
| Singular | iba |
| Plural | ibeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | huiba |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -liiba |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kuiba |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -taiba |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -taiba |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -siibe |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngeiba |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singeiba |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngaliiba |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singaliiba |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -meiba |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshaiba |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jaiba |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kiiba |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipoiba |
| Consecutive | kaiba / positive subject concord + -kaiba |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kaibe |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Applicative: -ibia (“to steal from”)
** Passive: -ibwa (“be stolen”)
* Nominal derivations:
** mwizi (“thief”)

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ibah (“companion, close relative, other one”), from Proto-Austronesian *ibaS (“companion, close relative, other one”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ʔiˈba/ [ʔɪˈba]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: i‧ba

#### Noun

ibá (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜊ)
* another; different one

#### Adjective

ibá (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜊ)
* different
    Synonyms: naiiba, di-kapareho
* another; some other
* new
    Synonyms: bago, nababago

##### Derived terms

* at iba pa
* di-iba-iba
* di-maiiba
* iba't iba
* iba-iba
* ibahin
* ibang iba
* ikaiba
* kaiba
* kaibahan
* kakaiba
* kakaibahan
* mag-iba
* mag-iba-iba
* magkaiba
* magkaiba-iba
* magkaibang magkaiba
* magkakaiba
* magpaiba-iba
* magpakaiba
* maiba
* maiba ako
* maibhan
* mangagkaiba
* mangiba
* mangibang-bayan
* pag-ibaibahin
* pag-iiba-iba
* pagkakaiba
* pagkakaiba-iba
* paiba-iba
* sa ibang paraan
* walang-pagkakaiba

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈʔibaʔ/ [ˈʔiː.bɐʔ]
* Rhymes: -ibaʔ
* Syllabification: i‧ba

#### Noun

ibà (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜊ)
* Otaheite gooseberry; Phyllanthus acidus (tree and fruit)
    Synonyms: bangkiling, karmay

### Etymology 3

From Proto-Southern Philippine *íbaʔ (“tree with sour fruit”). Compare Bikol Central iba and Cebuano iba.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈʔiba/ [ˈʔiː.bɐ]
* Rhymes: -iba
* Syllabification: i‧ba

#### Noun

iba (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜊ)
* bilimbi (tree and fruit)
    Synonym: kamyas

### Further reading

* “iba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ibah”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
* Zorc, David Paul (1985) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 4, page 173

### Anagrams

* Bai

## Yoruba
### Alternative forms

* ịbà (Ekiti)

### Etymology 1

Cognate with Igbo iba, Ayere iba, Gade iba, Nupe eba, and Igala íbáà, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ɪ́-bà

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ī.bà/

#### Noun

ibà
* fever
    Synonym: òjòjò
* malaria, malarial fever

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ì.bà/

#### Noun

ìbà
* praise, reverence, adoration; homage

##### Derived terms

* júbà (“to pay homage or reverence to”)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ì.bá/

#### Verb

ìbá
* would, ought to

### Etymology 4

ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ ba (“to lie in ambush, to hide”)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ì.bā/

#### Noun

ìba
* the act of ambushing someone
* ambush, hiding

### Etymology 5

i- (“non-gerundive nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bá (“to meet, to encounter”)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ī.bá/

#### Noun

ibá
* The act of meeting someone
* meeting
    Synonym: ìpàdé
* chance encounter

##### Related terms

* àbápàdé

### Etymology 6
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ì.bā/

#### Noun

ìba
* a little amount, small portion

### Etymology 7

Compare with baba

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ī.bā/

#### Noun

iba
* (Ọwọ, Usẹn) father
    Synonyms: bàbá, bàá, bà, baba

##### Coordinate terms

* iye (“mother”)

##### Derived terms

* ibaba (“paternal grandfather”)