dabba

See also: dábba

English

Etymology 1

Noun

dabba (plural dabbas)

1. (India) A kind of lunchbox or food container.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

dabba (plural dabbas)

1. (mathematics) del, the partial difference symbol ∂

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Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Kanuri dábbà (“animal”), from Arabic دَابَّة (dābba, “quadruped”).

Noun

dabbā̀ f (plural dabbōbī, possessed form dabbàr̃)

1. animal

References

• Hausa vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• dabbet

Verb

dabba

1. inflection of dabbe:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

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Swedish

Verb

dabba

1. (reflexive) goof up

   Jag hade fått full pott på matteprovet om jag inte dabbat mig på det enklaste talet.

Conjugation

Conjugation of dabba (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	dabba		—
Supine	dabbat		—
Imperative	dabba		—
Imper. plural1	dabben		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	dabbar	dabbade	—	—
Ind. plural1	dabba	dabbade	—	—
Subjunctive2	dabbe	dabbade	—	—
	Participles
Present participle	dabbande
Past participle	dabbad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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Uzbek

Noun

dabba (plural dabbalar)

1. hernia