cab

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kæb/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

Clipping of cabriolet

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. (US) A taxi; a taxicab.
2. Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
3. Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

     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 check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!

Derived terms

• cabbie
• cabdriver
• hackney cab

Translations

taxi

• Bulgarian: такси (bg) (taksi) n
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 的士 (dīksí)

  Mandarin: 出租汽車 (cmn), 出租汽车 (cmn) (chūzūqìchē) (PRC), 出租車 (cmn), 出租车 (cmn) (chūzūchē) (PRC), 計程車 (cmn), 计程车 (cmn) (jìchéngchē) (Taiwan), 的士 (cmn) (díshì) (loanword)

  Wu: 差头

• Czech: taxík (cs) m
• Esperanto: kabo (eo), taksio (eo)

• Finnish: taksi (fi)
• German: Taxi (de) n
• Icelandic: leigubíll (is) m, taxi (is) m, leigubifreið (is) f
• Italian: tassì
• Polish: taksówka (pl) f
• Russian: такси (ru) (taksí) n
• Scottish Gaelic: tagsaidh (gd) m
• Swedish: taxi (sv) c
• Volapük: loatatood (vo), taxid (vo)

compartment

• Bulgarian: кабина (bg) (kabina) f
• Czech: kabina (cs) f
• Finnish: ohjaamo (fi)
• German: Führerhaus n, Fahrerhaus n, Führerkabine f, Fahrerkabine f

• Hungarian: vezetőfülke (hu)
• Italian: cabina (it) f
• Russian: кабина (ru) (kabína) f

Etymology 2

From Hebrew קב (káv).

Alternative forms

• kab

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, held by some to have been about 1.4 liters, by others about 2.4 liters.
   • 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 […]

Anagrams

• ABC
• bac, BAC
• BCA, B. C. A.
• CBA

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [kabˠ]

Noun

cab m (genitive caib, nominative plural cabanna)

1. mouth
2. muzzle

Declension

Declension of cab

First 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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cab	chab	gcab
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

cab m (invariable)

1. Hansom cab

Anagrams

• abc

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Lojban

Rafsi

cab

1. rafsi of cabna.

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cab m (genitive caib, plural caban)

1. mouth

   Dùin do chab!

   Shut your mouth!

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Swedish

Noun

cab c

1. a convertible car, one with a foldable roof; short for cabriolet

Declension

Declension of cab

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cab	cabben	cabbar	cabbarna
genitive	cabs	cabbens	cabbars	cabbarnas