# abe
## Translingual
### Symbol

abe
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Western Abenaki.

## English
### Etymology

Probably a- +‎ be.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈbi/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -iː

### Verb

abe
* (intransitive, infinitive, British, uncommon) To be.
** 1839, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 1, page 527:Let it abe, I say.
** 1864, Charles Dickens, Household Words‎, page 186:But if it amuses her I let it abe.
** 1885, Charles Gibbon, Heart's Delight‎, page 154:But let that abe.

### References

* Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 3

### Anagrams

* BAE, AEB, bae, EAB, Bea, BAe, Bae, aeb, BEA, eba

## Abinomn
### Noun

abe
* elder sister

## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈbe/ [ʔʌˈbɛ]
* Hyphenation: a‧be

### Verb

abé (causative absiisé, autobenefactive abité)
* (transitive) do
* (transitive) make
* (transitive) operate
* (transitive) execute

#### Derived terms

* -aba
* -abe
* abeyna
* abína

### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “abe”, 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)

## Albanian
### Etymology

Possibly related to avë.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aˈbɛ]

### Noun

abe f (plural abe, definite abeja, definite plural abet)
* shadow
* (regional) spectre, phantasm, ghost, horror
* (regional) gracefulness
* (colloquial) alphabet

#### Further reading

* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
* Oda Buchholz, Wilfried Fiedler, Gerda Uhlisch (2000) Langenscheidt Handwörterbuch Albanisch, Langenscheidt Verlag, →ISBN, page 27 (abé)
* Mann, S. E. (1948) “abe”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 1

## Alemannic German
### Alternative forms

* aba (Graubünden)
* ache, achi (some Bern)
* ai, ahi, aahi (Fribourg, some St.Gallen)

### Adverb

abe
* down, downwards
    Antonym: ufe
    Wetsch scho wider abe? ― Do you already want down / off (i.e. alight) again?

#### Usage notes

* Also used as a verb prefix, corresponding to German hinab- or German herab-.

### See also

* une
* dune, dunne

### Further reading

* “ab-hin”, in Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache (in German), volume 2, 1891, column 1319
* “abe”, in Wörterbuch Berndeutsch-Deutsch (in German), berndeutsch.ch, 1999–2025

## Cimbrian
### Etymology

The sense “south” may be reinforced by or a semantic loan from Venetan: vago zò a Roma (“I go south to Rome”, literally “I go down to Rome”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Adverb

abe (Sette Comuni)
* down
* south, down south
    Ich ghéa abe kan Ròome.I'm going down south to Rome.

#### Synonyms

* abar, iidar

#### Antonyms

* au

#### Derived terms

* denaabe
* hòitan abe

### References

* “abe” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aːbə/, [ˈæːb̥ə]
* Audio (Copenhagen):(file)
* Rhymes: -aːbə

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse api (“fool”).

#### Noun

abe c (singular definite aben, plural indefinite aber)
* monkey
* ape

##### Synonyms

* abekat

##### Derived terms

* fjeldabe

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse apa, from api (“fool”).

#### Verb

abe (imperative ab, infinitive at abe, present tense aber, past tense abede, perfect tense har abet)
* mimic, ape

##### Synonyms

* abe efter
* efterabe

## Kom (Cameroon)
### Adverb

abe
* outside (of)

### References

* Randy Jones, Provisional Kom - English lexicon (2001, Yaoundé, Cameroon)

## Lun Bawang
### Noun

abe
* earring.

### See also

* abey

## Mirandese
### Etymology

From Latin avis, avem (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis (“bird”).

### Noun

abe f (plural abes)
* bird

## Picard
### Etymology

From Old French arbre.

### Noun

abe m (plural abes)
* tree

## Portuguese
### Verb

abe
* inflection of abar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Sardinian
### Etymology

From Latin apis, apem. Compare Campidanese abi, Nuorese ape.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈabe/, [ˈäː.β̞ɛ]

### Noun

abe f (plural abes)
* (Logudorese) bee
    S’abe faghet su mele. ― The bee makes honey.
* (Nuorese) Alternative form of ape

#### Derived terms

* abe reina
* abiare

#### Related terms

* abiolu
* àbigu

### References

* Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
* Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

### Further reading

* Abe on the Sardinian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{sc}$

## Scots
### Adverb

abe
* Alternative form of abee

### References

* “abe”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.