abli

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• abri

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish abrir, with the L changing to R and final R omitted.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ab‧li
• IPA^(key): /ʔabˈli/ [ʔɐbˈl̪i]

Adjective

ablí

1. open (not closed)

   Synonym: abyerto

2. ajar

Verb

ablí

1. to open
2. to begin (of classes, business, etc.)
3. to found an enterprise

Derived terms

• ablihan

Livonian

Etymology

a’b (“help”) +‎ -li

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑˀbli/, [ˈɑˀbli]

Noun

a’bli

1. helper

Declension

Declension of a’bli (201)

	singular (ikšlu’g)	plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv)	a’bli	a’blizt
genitive (genitīv)	a’bliz	a’blizt
partitive (partitīv)	a’blizt a’blit	a’bliži
dative (datīv)	a’blizõn	a’bliztõn
instrumental (instrumentāl)	a’blizõks	a’bliztõks
illative (illatīv)	a’blizõ	a’bližiz
inessive (inesīv)	a’blizõs	a’bližis
elative (elatīv)	a’blizõst	a’bližist

References

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “a’bli”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• able

Etymology

Borrowed from Early Modern Spanish abrir with loss of final /ɾ/ and a sound shift from /ɾ/ to /l/, from Latin aperīre. Doublet of abre, a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔabˈli/ [ʔɐbˈlɪ]

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• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ab‧li

Adjective

ablí (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊ᜔ᜎᜒ)

1. open (not closed)

   Synonym: bukas

Derived terms

• ablihan
• mag-abli

Related terms

• abrelata
• abretapa
• abridor
• abrigana

Noun

ablí (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊ᜔ᜎᜒ)

1. act of opening something

   Synonyms: bukas, abre

Further reading

• “abli”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 8: “Abrir) Able (pc) coſa que tiene cerradura, o eſtra cerrada cõ llaue”