debe

See also: debé, dəbə, dɛ́bɛ, and dɛ̀bɛ

English

Etymology

From Swahili debe.

Noun

debe (plural debes)

1. (Kenya) A tin container used for kerosene etc.

Abinomn

Noun

debe

1. bow (weapon)

Galician

Verb

debe

1. inflection of deber:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈde.be/

Verb

debe

1. present of deber
2. imperative of deber

Latin

Verb

dēbē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēbeō

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʲeβʲe]

Noun

debe n

1. disagreement
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7^d10

     Do·adbadar sund trá causa pro qua scripta est æpistola .i. irbága ro·bátar leosom eter desciplu et debe; óentu immurgu eter a magistru.

     Here, then is shown the reason for which the epistle was written, i.e. they had had contentions and disagreements between the disciples; unity, however, among their masters.

Declension

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	debeN	debeL	debeL
Vocative	debeN	debeL	debeL
Accusative	debeN	debeL	debeL
Genitive	debiL	debeL	debeN
Dative	debiuL	debib	debib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
debe	debe pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndebe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deibe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Soninke

Etymology

Cognate with Bambara dɛ̀bɛn, Eastern Maninkakan dɛ̀bɛ.

Noun

debe

1. mat

   Synonym: tenbe

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdebe/ [ˈd̪e.β̞e]

• Audio (Latin America):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ebe
• Syllabification: de‧be

Verb

debe

1. inflection of deber:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Omani Arabic دِبّة.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Noun

debe (ma class, plural madebe)

1. An oil container holding about four gallons.