# cab
## Translingual
### Symbol

cab
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Garifuna.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Garifuna terms

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kæb/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -æb
* Hyphenation: cab

### Etymology 1

Clipping of cabriolet.

#### Noun

cab (plural cabs)
* A compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
    Synonym: driver's compartment
* A similar compartment in other vehicles.
** 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “A Graveyard for Cars”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 324:Dad looked up to catch sight of the man in the crane’s cab. He knew that DEVILISH smirk anywhere. It was Fingers.
* A shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
* Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
** [1877], Anna Sewell, “A London Cab Horse”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part III, page 158:Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably, as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two, it all fitted well. There was no bearing rein—no curb—nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!
* Synonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys.
    a cab ride

##### Hyponyms

* (compartment): crew cab, Eurocab, sleeper cab
* (four-wheeled carriage): black cab, hackney cab, Hansom cab

##### Derived terms

* aerocab
* aircab
* autocab
* bike cab
* cabber
* cabbie
* cabby
* cab driver
* cabdriver
* cabdriving
* cab forward
* cabless
* cabman
* cab off the rank
* cabover
* cabowner
* cab rank
* cab-rank rule
* cab sav
* cab signal
* cab signalling, cab signaling
* cabstand
* cabulance
* cab unit
* cabwoman
* call a cab
* centercab
* day cab
* double cab
* dual cab
* extended cab
* gypsy cab
* gyrocab
* hack cab
* hackney cab
* helicab
* king cab
* minicab
* motorcab
* pedicab
* steeple cab
* supercab
* taxicab
* tender cab
* yellow cab

##### Translations
#### Verb

cab (third-person singular simple present cabs, present participle cabbing, simple past and past participle cabbed)
* To travel by taxicab.

### Etymology 2

From Hebrew קב (káv).

#### Alternative forms

* kab

#### Noun

cab (plural cabs)
* (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.
** 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3:[…] in the famine of Samaria […] the fourth part of a cab of pigeon's dung was sold for five pieces of silver […]

##### Meronyms

* (liquid volume): log ($^1$⁄$_4$ cab); hin (3 cabs); bath (18 cabs); cor, kor, homer, chomer (180 cabs)
* (dry volume): seah (6 cabs); ephah (18 cabs); lethek, lethech (90 cabs); homer, chomer, cor, kor (180 cabs)

### Etymology 3

Clipping of cabinet.

#### Noun

cab (plural cabs)
* (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
* (software, Windows) Clipping of cabinet file (“a compress library archive file”).
    Coordinate terms: DMF, MSI, MSU

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

cab (plural cabs)
* Alternative form of Cab

### References

* "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

### Anagrams

* B. C. A., B.C.A., bac, CBA, BAC, ABC, cba, A. B. C., -bac-, BCA, A.B.C.

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle Irish cab.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɑbˠ/, /kabˠ/, (Cois Fharraige) [kaːb]

### Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)
* mouth
* muzzle

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
cab
cabanna
vocative
a chaib
a chabanna
genitive
caib
cabanna
dative
cab
cabanna
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an cab
na cabanna
genitive
an chaib
na gcabanna
dative
leis an gcab don chab
leis na cabanna :

#### Derived terms

* cabach
* cabaire

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cab”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, pages 10–15
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 370, page 125
* ↑ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht [The Irish of Cois Fharraige: Accidence] (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], page 311

### Further reading

* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “cab”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cab”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cab.

### Noun

cab m (invariable)
* Hansom cab

### Anagrams

* abc

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Middle Irish cab.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʰap/

### Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, plural caban)
* mouth
    Dùin do chab!Shut your mouth!

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Somali
### Verb

cab
* drink

## Swedish
### Noun

cab c
* a convertible car, one with a foldable roof; short for cabriolet