ab

See also Appendix:Variations of "ab", and Appendix:ISO 639-1 language codes

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA: /æb/
• Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

Abs

Abbreviation of abdominal muscles.

Noun

ab (plural abs)

1. (informal) abdominal muscle
   • 2010, Bill Geiger, "6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks", Reps! 17:106

     When possible, do your ab workout on a day when you're not training a major muscle group […] .

Usage notes

Most often used attributively. Substantive use is more common in the plural form abs.

Translations

abdominal muscle

Finnish: vatsalihas (fi) French: abdo (fr)

Japanese: 腹筋（ふっきん） (ja) (fukkin) Russian: пресс (ru)

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of abscess.

Noun

ab (plural abs)

1. (slang) An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.

Translations

an abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug

Etymology 3

Abbreviations, see definitions.

Abbreviation

ab

1. abort or abortion
2. about

References

• “ab” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• "ab" in Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 2002.
• “ab” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.

Anagrams

• ba, BA

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Aynu

Etymology

From Persian آب.

Noun

ab

1. water

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Catalan

Preposition

ab

1. (archaic) amb (with)

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Latin ab (“of, from”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ab/, [ɑb̥]

Preposition

ab

1. ex (out of, sold from)
2. from (with the origin in time)

Etymology 2

See abe (“to ape, mimic”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /aːb/, [æːˀb̥]

Verb

ab

1. imperative of abe

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German

Etymology

From Old High German ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ap/

Preposition

ab

1. Beginning at that time or location; from.

   ab heute verfügbar (available from today on)

Derived terms

• ab und zu

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Interlingua

Preposition

ab

1. from

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Irish

Noun

ab m.

1. abbot

Declension

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative ab abaí Vocative a ab a abaí Genitive aba abaí Dative ab abaí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-ab na habaí Genitive an aba na n-abaí Dative leis an ab don ab leis na habaí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h prefix	with t- prefix
ab	n-ab	hab	t-ab
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ab/

• Audio (Classical)

  (file)

• Audio (Ecclesiastical)

  (file)

Preposition

ab (also a)

1. of, from, by, since (takes object in ablative case).

Usage notes

• Sometimes shortened to ā (except in cases where the following ablative noun begins with a vowel or h).

• It is used in conjunction with passive verbs to mark the passive voice. Ex: "Liber ā discipulō aperītur (literally, "book by student is opened"/ fig. "the book is opened by the student").

References

• Latin Dictionary, Lewis and Short, 1879.
• Lingua Latina, Hans H. Ørberg, 2005.

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Livonian

Noun

ab (plural abūd)

1. shoulder

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• amb
• dab (Gascon)
• damb (Gascon, Aranese)
• ambé (Provençal)
• embé (Provençal, Niçard)

Pronunciation

• IPA: ['ab]

Preposition

ab

1. (Guardiol) with

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ab.

Preposition

ab

1. of

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *abon- (compare Welsh afon), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eb- (“water”).

Noun

ab n.

1. river

Descendants

• Irish: abhainn
• Manx: awin
• Scottish Gaelic: abhainn

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Old Provençal

Etymology

Reduced form of Latin apud

Preposition

ab

1. with
   • circa 1000, unknown, Lo Poèma de Boecis:

     Non comprarias ab mil liuras d’argent.

Descendants

• Catalan: amb
• Occitan: amb

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Pumpokol

Noun

ab

1. father

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Romani

Noun

ab m. (plural ab)

1. river

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

ab m. (genitive aba, plural abachan)

1. Alternative form of aba.

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Turkish

Etymology

From Persian آب (āb).

Noun

ab

1. (archaic) water

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Volapük

Etymology

From German aber (“but”).

Conjunction

ab

1. but