# bibi
## English
### Etymology

From Hindi बीबी (bībī), from Classical Persian بی‌بی (bī-bī).

### Noun

bibi (plural bibis)
* (India) A grandmother.
* (India, obsolete) A European woman in British India; sometimes a married man's mistress.
** 2010, Stephen Markel, Tushara Bindu Gude, India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, page 59:The bibis of European men were treated in the same way as upper-class Muslim women, that is, they were kept hidden from view and did not mingle socially with men.

#### Alternative forms

* beebee

#### Related terms

* bibiji

## Acehnese
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bibiʀ

### Pronunciation

IPA: /bibi/

### Noun

bibi
* lip

## Alangan
### Noun

bibî
* mouth

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Persian بی‌بی (bi-bi).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [biˈbi]
* Audio (Baku):(file)
* Hyphenation: bi‧bi

### Noun

bibi (definite accusative bibini, plural bibilər)
* paternal aunt ("sister of one's father")
    Coordinate terms: əmi (“maternal uncle”), dayı (“maternal uncle”), xala (“paternal aunt”)

#### See also

* əmioğlu (“male paternal cousin”)
* əmiqızı (“female paternal cousin”)
* dayıoğlu (“male maternal cousin”)
* dayıqızı (“female paternal cousin”)
* qardaşoğlu (“fraternal nephew”)
* qardaşqızı (“fraternal niece”)

## Barngarla
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbibi/

### Noun

bibi
* egg
    Synonym: bardi

### References

* Page 61 of Zuckermann, Ghil'ad, Emmalene Richards and the Barngarla (2021), Mangiri Yarda (Healthy Country: Barngarla Wellbeing and Nature), Adelaide: Revivalistics Press.
* Goldsworthy, Anna (2014), Voices of the land: In Port Augusta, an Israeli linguist is helping the Barngarla people reclaim their language, The Monthly.

## Bikol Central
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bibi.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbibi/ [ˈbi.bi]
* Hyphenation: bi‧bi

#### Noun

bíbi (Basahan spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ)
* clam (freshwater type)
    Synonym: punaw

##### See also

* bingkay
* buskay

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbiʔbiʔ/ [ˈbiʔ.biʔ]
* Hyphenation: bi‧bi

#### Verb

bîbî (Basahan spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ)
* Alternative form of mibi

## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: bi‧bi
* IPA: /ˈbibi/ [ˈbi.bɪ]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay bebek.

#### Noun

bíbi (Badlit spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ)
* a duck; any member of the form taxon of ducks
    Synonyms: pato, itik

##### Derived terms

* bibihan

### Etymology 2

Unknown.

#### Noun

bíbi (Badlit spelling ᜊᜒᜊᜒ)
* an edible saltwater clam, Venerupis philippinarum

##### See also

* punaw

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bibi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bi.bi/
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* Hyphenation: bi‧bi

### Pronoun

bibi
* (informal, Belgium) yours truly (I, me or myself)
    Synonyms: ik, ikzelf

#### Usage notes

The accompanying verb is conjugated in the 3rd person singular. The word also has a diminutive: bibieke.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bi.bi/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

bibi (invariable)
* dual-mode

### Noun

bibi m (plural bibis)
* a small, lady's hat
* a bauble or trinket

### Pronoun

bibi
* (informal) yours truly (I, me or myself)
** 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN:Tu vas chez H&M. Et le crétin qui range derrière toi, c’est bibi.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Synonyms

* moi
* ma pomme

### Further reading

* “bibi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Guinea-Bissau Creole
### Etymology

From Portuguese beber. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bebi.

### Verb

bibi
* to drink

## Hiligaynon
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay bebek.

#### Noun

bíbi
* duck

### Etymology 2

Unknown.

#### Noun

bîbî or bíbì
* shore; beach

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Probably a nominalization of the present participle (formed with -i, a variant of -e (obsolete present-participle suffix)) of an unattested stem. The stem is of onomatopoeic origin and is possibly the same as in bíbelődik; it may also be related to the stem of babrál and babirkál. First attested in 1566. The term developed alongside bibe through a semantic split.
For phonetically similar equivalents of the “minor injury” sense (sense 1), see German Wehweh, Wehwehchen, French bobo, Czech bebé, bebíčko.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbibi]
* Hyphenation: bi‧bi
* Rhymes: -bi

### Noun

bibi (plural bibik)
* (now often childish) disease, illness, especially a minor injury or wound
    Synonyms: bibe, baj, betegség, seb, sérülés, sebesülés
* (archaic, often in the possessive) weak spot, vulnerability
    Synonyms: bibe, gyenge, gyengeség, gyenge pont
* (informal, often in the possessive) snag, hitch (problem or difficulty with something)
    Synonyms: bibe, bökkenő, probléma

#### Derived terms

* bibis

### References

* 1 2 bibi in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

### Further reading

* bibi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* bibi in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay bibi.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /ˈbi.bi/, [ˈbi.bi]

### Noun

bibi (plural bibi-bibi)
* (formal) aunt
    Synonym: tante
    Antonym: paman
* elderly woman (assumed have similar age to her/his aunt or based on appearance)
* (chiefly Jakarta, derogatory) female servant; maid

#### Synonyms

* (mother's older sister): bude, encang
* (father's older sister): bude, encang
* (mother's younger sister): bulik, encing
* (father's younger sister): bulik, encing

## Japanese
### Romanization

bibi
* Rōmaji transcription of びび

## Latin
### Verb

bibī
* first-person singular perfect active indicative of bibō

## Malay
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

bibi (plural bibi-bibi, informal 1st possessive bibiku, 2nd possessive bibimu, 3rd possessive bibinya)
* (Pontianak) madurese female seller or peddler

## Romani
### Etymology

Possibly Borrowed from Persian بی‌بی. Compare Hindi बीबी (bībī).

### Noun

bibi f (nominative plural bibǎ)
* aunt

### References

* ↑ Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25
* ↑ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “bibí”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 26

### Further reading

* Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e bib/i, -ǎ ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN
* Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “bibi”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22

## Rukai
### Etymology

From Malay bebek.

### Noun

bibi
* duck

## Spanish
### Etymology

Short for biberón.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbibi/ [ˈbi.β̞i]
* Rhymes: -ibi
* Syllabification: bi‧bi

### Noun

bibi m (plural bibis)
* (colloquial) baby bottle

## Swahili
### Alternative forms

* (abbreviation) Bi.

### Etymology

Borrowed from Omani Arabic بيبي (bībi), from Persian بی‌بی (bi-bi).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

bibi class V (plural mabibi class VI)
* lady; mistress (female master or the female equivalent of a gentleman)
* Mrs.
* grandmother
* (card games) queen

#### Coordinate terms

* bwana

#### Derived terms

* kibibi (“young lady”)

### See also

Playing cards in Swahili · karata za kucheza (layout · text) :
| ree, rea, rei | mbili | tatu | nne | tano | sita | saba |
| nane | tisa | kumi | ghulamu, mzungu wa tatu | malkia, mzungu wa pili, bibi | mfalme, mzungu wa nne, basha | jokari |

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbi.bi]

### Noun

bibi
* any of several fish in Tetraodontidae and Ostraciidae

### References

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

## Tetum
### Noun

bibi
* goat

## Thao
### Noun

bibi
* (anatomy) chin

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بی بی (bîbî), from Persian بی‌بی (bi-bi).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /biˈbi/
* Hyphenation: bi‧bi

### Noun

bibi (definite accusative bibiyi, plural bibiler)
* (colloquial) paternal aunt (sister of someone's father)

#### Synonyms

* hala

### See also

* teyze

## Tyap
### Etymology

Short for a̱bi + a̱bi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bíbí/

### Noun

bibi
* graves

## Yami

From Malay bebek. Compare Rukai bibi & Saisiyat bibi.

### Noun

bibi
* duck