# diable
## English

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### Alternative forms

* diablo

### Etymology

From French (à la) diable, from diable (“devil”), from Old French. Doublet of devil, diablo, and diabolus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diˈɑːbəl/

### Noun

diable (plural diables)
* An unglazed earthenware casserole dish.

### Adjective

diable (not comparable)
* (postpositive) Flavored with hot spices.
    Synonym: diablo
    sauce diable

### Anagrams

* Abdiel, Idabel, bailed, baldie, belaid, dabeli, déblai

## Catalan
### Etymology

Likely borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [diˈab.blə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [diˈa.ble]
* Rhymes: -ablə, -able

### Noun

diable m (plural diables)
* devil

#### Derived terms

* advocat del diable
* diable espinós
* diablejar
* diableria
* diables
* diablessa
* diabló
* endiablar
* ou del diable

#### Related terms

* diabòlic

### See also

* dimoni
* Satanàs

### Further reading

* “diable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “diable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “diable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “diable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

diablo +‎ -e

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [diˈable]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -able
* Hyphenation: di‧a‧ble

### Adverb

diable
* devilishly (in a way characteristic of the devil)
* terribly, awfully

### Interjection

diable
* deuce, damn

## French
### Alternative forms

* yiable (Canada)

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French diable, from Old French diable, deable, a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /djabl/ ~ /djɑbl/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* (Louisiana, also) IPA: /dʒɔb/, /dʒawb/, /dʒa.bul/

### Noun

diable m (plural diables)
* (religion, mythology) devil
* (colloquial) rogue, (old) devil
* hand truck
** 1954, Institut français d'Afrique noire, Mémoires de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire, page 179:... l’ensemble a l’aspect d’une brouette ou d’un diable, mais ne peut être que tiré, car, en poussant, la roue sortirait ...... the whole has the appearance of a wheelbarrow or a hand truck, but can only be pulled, because, when pushed, the wheel would come out ...
** 1996, Charles-Édouard de Suremain, Jours ordinaires à la finca: une grande plantation de café au Guatemala, page 172:En milieu d’après-midi, juste avant la pluie, un ouvrier ramasse le café de consommation à l’aide d’un « diable », une sorte de repoussoir en bois qui a la forme d’une caisse ouverte, qu’il pousse devant lui.By mid-afternoon, just before the rain, a worker picks the coffee for consumption with the aid of a "devil", a kind of trolley of wood in the form of an open box, which is pushed before you.
** 2011 Louis Cagin and Laetitia Nicolas, Construire en pierre sèche p.35
    Déplacer une pierre avec une brouette ou un diableMoving a stone with a wheelbarrow or a hand truck
    Diable à roues pneumatiqueshand truck with pneumatic wheels.

#### Derived terms

* à la diable
* au diable
* au diable-vauvert
* avocat du diable
* avoir le diable au corps
* cheval du diable
* de tous les diables
* diable de Tasmanie
* diable vauvert
* diablement
* diablerie
* du diable
* en diable
* endiablé
* endiabler
* herbe au diable
* herbe du diable
* le diable aux trousses
* mors du diable
* ne craindre ni Dieu ni diable
* pacte avec le diable
* que diable
* tenter le diable
* tirer le diable par la queue
* vendre son âme au diable

#### Descendants

* Haitian Creole: dyab
* → English: diable, diablo
* Chinook Jargon: le diaub

### Proper noun

le diable m
* the Devil

### Interjection

diable
* (dated) dash it!, deuce!

### Adverb

diable
* (colloquial) the hell, on earth, intensifies interrogatives
    pourquoi diable ― why on earth
    comment diable ― how the hell

### Further reading

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

## Middle French
### Alternative forms

* Diable (proper noun)
* dyable

### Etymology

From Old French diable, deable.

### Proper noun

le diable m
* the Devil

### Noun

diable m (plural diables)
* devil

### Adjective

diable m or f (plural diables)
* evil

### Descendants

* French: diable, yiable (Canada)
** Haitian Creole: dyab
** → English: diable, diablo
** Chinook Jargon: le diaub
* Norman: dgiâbl'ye (Jersey), diablle (France)

### References

* diable on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

## Old French
### Proper noun

diable m (nominative singular diables)
* Alternative form of deable

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdja.blɛ/
* Rhymes: -ablɛ
* Syllabification: dia‧ble
* Homophone: diablę

### Adjective

diable
* inflection of diabli:
** neuter nominative singular
** neuter accusative singular
** neuter vocative singular
** nonvirile nominative plural
** nonvirile accusative plural
** nonvirile vocative plural

### Noun

diable m
* inflection of diabeł:
** locative singular
** vocative singular