abla
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Kirikiri
[edit]Noun
[edit]abla
- (Kirikiri) tongue
Synonyms
[edit]- oma (Faia)
Further reading
[edit]- Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)
Old Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abla
- inflection of aball:
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| abla (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
abla | n-abla |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Papiamentu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]abla
- to speak
Noun
[edit]abla
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish habla (“speech”), from Old Spanish fabla, from Latin fābula. Doublet of habla and pabula.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog)
- Syllabification: a‧bla
Noun
[edit]abla or ablá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊ᜔ᜎ)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “abla”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
- “abla”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
- “abla”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2026.
Anagrams
[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish ابلا (abla, “elder sister”), most likely from earlier *appa, from Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother, elder sister, aunt”). Compare ebe (“aunt, midwife”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abla (definite accusative ablayı, plural ablalar)
- older sister
- Şimdilik ablamın evinde kalıyorum.
- I'm staying over at my older sister's house for now.
- term of address for a woman, younger than teyze (“auntie”)
- İndirim yapmaz mısın be abla? Öğrenciyiz de. (colloquial speech)
- Wouldn't you give us a discount? Please ma'am, we are students.
- (slang) brothel mistress, whorehouse madam
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Categories:
- Kirikiri lemmas
- Kirikiri nouns
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish non-lemma forms
- Old Irish noun forms
- Papiamentu terms derived from Spanish
- Papiamentu lemmas
- Papiamentu verbs
- Papiamentu nouns
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Old Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Latin
- Tagalog doublets
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Tagalog terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/abla
- Rhymes:Tagalog/abla/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Tagalog/a
- Rhymes:Tagalog/a/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- tl:Talking
- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms inherited from Proto-Turkic
- Turkish terms derived from Proto-Turkic
- Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Turkish terms with audio pronunciation
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns
- Turkish terms with usage examples
- Turkish slang
- tr:Family