ab
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Abbreviation of abdominal muscles.
Noun [edit]
ab (plural abs)
- (informal) abdominal muscle. [Mid 20th century.][1]
- 2006, H. Peter Steeves, The Things Themselves (page 75)
- The bikinied models in most of the ESPN2 shows have abs. Many of the malnourished bikinied models in the commercials have visible rib cages. How did the two get conflated into a shared vision of beauty?
- 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 […] .
- 2006, H. Peter Steeves, The Things Themselves (page 75)
Usage notes [edit]
Most often used attributively. Substantive use is more common in the plural form abs.
Translations [edit]
abdominal muscle
Etymology 2 [edit]
Abbreviation of abscess.
Noun [edit]
ab (plural abs)
Translations [edit]
an abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug
Etymology 3 [edit]
Abbreviations, see definitions.
Abbreviation [edit]
ab
Etymology 4 [edit]
From the spelling books and the fact that it was the first of the letter combinations.[2]
Noun [edit]
ab (plural abs)
- (US) The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.
References [edit]
- ^ 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 2:
- ^ Mathews, Mitford M, ed. A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles. 1st. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
- “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 [edit]
Aynu [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Persian آب.
Noun [edit]
ab
Catalan [edit]
Preposition [edit]
ab
Danish [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Latin ab (“of, from”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ab/, [ɑb̥]
Preposition [edit]
ab
Etymology 2 [edit]
See abe (“to ape, mimic”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /aːb/, [æːˀb̥]
Verb [edit]
ab
- imperative of abe
German [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old High German ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ap/
Preposition [edit]
ab
- Beginning at that time or location; from.
- ab heute verfügbar (available from today on)
Derived terms [edit]
Interlingua [edit]
Preposition [edit]
ab
Irish [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Latin abbas (“father”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbas), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”).
Noun [edit]
ab m (genitive aba, nominative plural abaí)
Declension [edit]
Declension of ab
Coordinate terms [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
Contraction of the relative particle a and the prevocalic variant of the past/conditional copula particle b'.
Particle [edit]
ab
- Alternative form of ba (used in relative clauses before a vowel sound).
- Fear maith ab ea é. — He was a good man.
- buachaill ab áirde ná mo dheartháir — A boy (who was) taller than my brother
Mutation [edit]
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| 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 [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“off, away”) (English off, of).
Alternative forms [edit]
- ā (not used before a vowel or h)
Pronunciation [edit]
Preposition [edit]
ab
- of, from, by, since (takes object in ablative case).
Usage notes [edit]
- Used in conjunction with passive verbs to mark the agent, e.g. Liber ā discipulō aperītur ("the book is opened by the student").
References [edit]
- Latin Dictionary, Lewis and Short, 1879.
- Lingua Latina, Hans H. Ørberg, 2005.
Livonian [edit]
Noun [edit]
ab (plural abūd)
Occitan [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: ['ab]
Preposition [edit]
ab
- (Guardiol) with
Old High German [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Germanic *ab.
Preposition [edit]
ab
Old Provençal [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Reduced form of Latin apud
Preposition [edit]
ab
- with
- circa 1000, unknown, Lo Poèma de Boecis:
- Non comprarias ab mil liuras d’argent.
- circa 1000, unknown, Lo Poèma de Boecis:
Descendants [edit]
Pumpokol [edit]
Noun [edit]
ab
Romani [edit]
Noun [edit]
ab m (plural ab)
Scottish Gaelic [edit]
Noun [edit]
ab m (genitive aba, plural abachan)
- Alternative form of aba.
Turkish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Persian آب (āb).
Noun [edit]
ab
Volapük [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From German aber (“but”).
Conjunction [edit]
ab
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