aber

See also: Aber and åber

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin habēre, present active infinitive of habeō ‎(“hold, have”).

Verb

aber

1. to have

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Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *aber, from Proto-Celtic *adberos. Cognate with Cornish aber ‎(“confluence, estuary”), Old Welsh aper ‎(“confluence, estuary”), Old Irish abor ‎(“estuary”).

Noun

aber m, f ‎(plural aberioù)

1. ria, estuary, mouth of a river

Verb

aber

1. present tense of aberiñ

References

• Victor Henry, Lexique Étymologique des termes les plus usuels du Breton Moderne, Plihon et Hervé, 1900, page {{{1}}}

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Danish

Noun

aber c

1. plural indefinite of abe

Verb

aber

1. present tense of abe

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from Breton aber.

Noun

aber m ‎(plural abers)

1. (geography) A ria, especially one in Brittany.

External links

• “aber” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German aber, aver, afer, from Old High German afur, afar, from Proto-Germanic *afar ‎(“behind”). Compare Saterland Frisian oaber ‎(“but”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʔaːbɐ]

• audio (Austria)

  (file)

• Audio

  (file)

Adverb

aber

1. again (mostly used in abermals, yet another time)

Conjunction

aber

1. but, however, though

Derived terms

• aber hallo

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• hàber

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish خبر ‎(haber), from Arabic خَبَر ‎(ḵabar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎber/
• Hyphenation: a‧ber

Noun

àber m ‎(Cyrillic spelling а̀бер)

1. news information
2. message
3. sensation, feeling

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowing from German aber ‎(“but”), turned into a noun (as in "no buts and no ifs").

Noun

aber n

1. a problem, an obstacle, a difficulty

Declension

The plural is the same, but definite forms do not apply.

References

• aber in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
• aber in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.

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Tarifit

Alternative forms

• ⴰⴱⴻⵔ
• abriw

Etymology

Compare Tashelhit abliw

Noun

aber m ‎(plural abriwen, construct state waber)

1. eyelash

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Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *aber, from Proto-Celtic *adberos.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈabɛr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːbɛr/

Noun

aber m, f (plural aberoedd or ebyr)

1. estuary, mouth of a river

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
aber	unchanged	unchanged	haber
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Zipser German

Conjunction

aber

1. Alternative form of åber