debe

See also: debé, dəbə, dɛ́bɛ, and dɛ̀bɛ

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Omani Arabic دِبّةbor.

Swahili debebor.

English debe

Borrowed from Swahili debe, borrowed from Omani Arabic دِبّة.

Noun

debe (plural debes)

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

Abinomn

Noun

debe

1. bow (weapon)

Aimele

Noun

debe

1. arm

Further reading

• R. D. Shaw, 1986, The Bosavi language family, In Papers in New Guinea Linguistics 24, 45-76. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. (Papers in New Guinea linguistics No. 24, 45-76), page 51

Chavacano

Etymology 1

Inherited from Spanish debe (“should; owes”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: de‧be

Noun

debe

1. debt

   Synonym: (Cotabateño, Zamboangueño) utang

Verb

debe

1. (pseudoverb) should; ought to

   Synonym: (Ternateño) dabli

Etymology 2

Inherited from Spanish deber (“to owe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deˈbe/ [de.ˈbe]
• Hyphenation: de‧be

Verb

debé

1. to owe (money)
2. to borrow (money)

Conjugation

Verb conjugation for debe

	tense	past	present	future	gerund	past participle	infinitive	manner	reciprocal	reciprocal past	reciprocal present	reciprocal future	reciprocal infinitive
Zamboanga City conjugation	debe	ya debe	ta debe	ay debe; debe; el debe; (rural/archaic) ey debe	debiendo	debido	debe	debida	debihan	ya man debihan; ya'n debihan	ta man debihan; ta'n debihan	ay man debihan; man debihan; el man debihan; (rural/archaic) ey man debihan	man debihan
Cavite conjugation				di debe

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): /ˈd̠ʲe.βʲe/

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

Mutation of debe

radical	lenition	nasalization
debe	debe pronounced with /ðʲ-/	ndebe

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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):

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• 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):

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Noun

debe class V (plural madebe class VI)

1. tin container holding about four gallons (usually oil).