bibe

See also: Bibe and bibë

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish badhb, a variant of badhbh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪb/
• Rhymes: -aɪb

Noun

bibe (plural bibes)

1. (Ireland, Newfoundland) A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
   • 1822, "All Hallow Eve in Ireland", in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume IX, No XV, page 257:

     "... But when Jack lies on his low death-bed, with the clammy dews standing on his brow, the moaning bibe combing her yellow locks, and singing the death-wail at his casement, then will this, and all poor Delaney's other actions, appear to his darkening eye in their true colours."

   • 1952, Shaw Desmond, Love by the Dark Water, page 11:

     Down there where the Bibe had her hole out of which she would howl to the rising moon and to the fairy peoples that would be peeping out at the new moon only to withdraw their small heads as they heard the cry of the Bibe.

   • 1992, William Nolan and Thomas P. Power, Waterford history & Society, page 628:

     He never believed in the bibe although the people were always talking of her.

   • 2006, Coralie Hughes Jensen, Lety's Gift:

     Sophie's face grew serious. "Not the bibe. She comes when we dies."

References

• "bibe" in Story et al. Dictionary of Newfoundland English Second Edition with supplement, (Toronto, 1990)

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Interlingua

Verb

bibe

1. present of biber
2. imperative of biber

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Irish

Alternative forms

• bib

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare English bib.

Noun

bibe m (genitive singular bibe, nominative plural bibí)

1. bib; apron-top

   Synonym: sciúlán

Declension

Declension of bibe

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative bibe bibí Vocative a bhibe a bhibí Genitive bibe bibí Dative bibe bibí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an bibe na bibí Genitive an bhibe na mbibí Dative leis an mbibe don bhibe leis na bibí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bibe	bhibe	mbibe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bibe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bibe”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bibe”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) bibe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of bibō

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Noun

bibe

1. duckling

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Portuguese

Noun

bibe m (plural bibes)

1. bib (item of clothing for babies)

Synonyms

• babador

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Tagalog

Alternative forms

• bibi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.be/

Noun

bibe

1. duck

Related terms

• pato