alibi

See also Alibi

English

Etymology

Latin alibi (“elsewhere, at another place”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈæl.ə.baɪ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

alibi (plural alibis)

1. (law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi

The Criminal Law Deskbook (1988; ISBN 0820512176) states: "Alibi is different from all of the other defenses...it is based upon the premise that the defendant is truly innocent."

Translations

criminal legal defense

• Arabic: دفع بالغيبة (ar) (daf3 bi-l-ghayba) m
• Armenian: ալիբի (hy) (alibi) , այլուրեքություն (hy) (aylurek’ut’yun) 
• Belarusian: алібі (álibi) n
• Catalan: coartada
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不在場證明 (cmn), 不在场证明 (cmn) (bùzài chǎng zhèngmíng), 不在犯罪現場 (cmn), 不在犯罪现场 (cmn) (bùzài fànzuì xiànchǎng)

• Czech: alibi (cs) n
• Danish: alibi (da)
• Dutch: alibi (nl) n
• Esperanto: alibio
• Finnish: alibi (fi)
• French: alibi (fr) m
• German: Alibi (de) n

• Greek: άλλοθι (el) (állothi) n 
• Hungarian: alibi (hu)
• Italian: alibi (it) m
• Japanese: アリバイ (ja) (aribai)
• Kannada: ಅಲಿಬಿ
• Korean: 알리바이 (ko) (allibai)
• Norwegian: alibi (no)
• Polish: alibi (pl) n
• Portuguese: álibi (pt) m
• Russian: алиби (ru) (álibi) n  (indeclinable)
• Serbo-Croatian: alibi (sh) m
• Slovak: alibi (sk)
• Spanish: coartada (es) f
• Swedish: alibi (sv)

Derived terms

• watertight alibi

Verb

alibi (third-person singular simple present alibies, present participle alibiing, simple past and past participle alibied)

1. to provide an alibi for
2. to provide an excuse for

See also

• Wikipedia article Alibi
• Wikipedia article Defense
• Wikipedia article Locked room mystery
• Wikipedia article Perfect murder

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Finnish

Noun

alibi

1. alibi

Declension

Declension of alibi (type risti) singular plural nominative alibi alibit genitive alibin alibien partitive alibia alibeja accusative alibi alibin alibit inessive alibissa alibeissa elative alibista alibeista illative alibiin alibeihin adessive alibilla alibeilla ablative alibilta alibeilta allative alibille alibeille essive alibina alibeina translative alibiksi alibeiksi instructive – alibein abessive alibitta alibeitta comitative – alibeineen

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Italian

Noun

alibi m (invariable)

1. alibi

Anagrams

• abili
• bilia
• Libia

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Latin

Etymology

From alius (“other, another”) + -bī.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈa.li.biː/

Adverb

alibī (not comparable)

1. elsewhere

Related terms

• alius

Descendants

• English: alibi
• Portuguese: álibi

See also

• ubī

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Polish

Pronunciation

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Noun

alibi n (indeclinable)

1. alibi

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

àlībi m (Cyrillic spelling а̀лӣби)

1. alibi

Declension

    declension of alibi

	singular	plural
nominative	alibi	alibiji
genitive	alibija	alibija
dative	alibiju	alibijima
accusative	alibi	alibije
vocative	alibi	alibiji
locative	alibiju	alibijima
instrumental	alibijem	alibijima