lib

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lib"

Translingual

Symbol

lib

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Likum.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Likum terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪb/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪb

Etymology 1

Abbreviation for various words beginning in lib-.

Noun

lib (countable and uncountable, plural libs)

1. (politics) liberal

   own the libs

2. liberation

   women's lib

3. library
4. libertarian

Derived terms

• libber
• LIBlet
• libspeak
• libtoid
• shitlib
• ziolib

Further reading

• lib on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English libbe, from Old English lybb, lyb (“medicine, drug, potion, poison, charm”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubi, from Proto-Germanic *lubją (“wort, herb, drug, poison”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lewb- (“to peel, break, damage”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to cut, remove, prune, separate”). Cognate with German Luppe, Lüppe (“salve, ointment, plant juice, medicine, magic”), Icelandic lyf (“medicine, drug”).

Noun

lib (plural libs)

1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A potion; magic potion; charm; concoction.

Etymology 3

From Middle English *libben (suggested by libbyng (“gelding”), lybbere (“gelder”)), related to Dutch lubben (“to castrate, emasculate”), Dutch libbe (“a steer”), lubbert (“a eunuch”). Further relation uncertain. Possibly related to Old English *lybban (“to doctor”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubbjan; or perhaps related to Old English lappa, læppa (“lappet, piece, section, lobe, portion, district”). More at lop.

Verb

lib (third-person singular simple present libs, present participle libbing, simple past and past participle libbed)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To geld; castrate; emasculate (usually said of animals).

Related terms

• glib
• libbert
• libbet

Anagrams

• BLI, bil

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

Verb

lib (past min lib, future go lib, a go lib, wi lib, wil lib, completive dun lib, imperfective a lib)

1. to live

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪp]
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Verb

lib

1. second-person singular imperative of líbit

Gullah

Etymology

From English live.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪb/

Verb

lib

1. To live

References

• De Nyew Testament‎^[1], Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., 2025
• Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French libre (“free”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lib/

Adjective

lib

1. free
2. unoccupied
3. loose (in morals)

Related terms

• libète

References

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN

Irish

Pronoun

lib

1. Galway form of libh

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą.

Noun

līb m or n

1. life
2. livelihood
3. body
4. monastic life

Declension

Masculine declension:

Declension of līb (masculine a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	līb	lībā, lība
accusative	līb	lībā, lība
genitive	lībes	lībo
dative	lībe	lībum
instrumental	lību	—

Neuter declension:

Declension of līb (neuter a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	līb	līb
accusative	līb	līb
genitive	lībes	lībo
dative	lībe	lībum
instrumental	lību	—

Derived terms

• guotwërklīb

Descendants

• Middle High German: līp, līph, līf, līb
  • Alemannic German: Liib
  • Central Franconian: Liev, Leiv

    Hunsrik: Leib

    Luxembourgish: Läif, Leif

  • Cimbrian: laip
  • German: Leib
  • Vilamovian: łaowa
  • Yiddish: לײַב (layb)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̠ʲiβʲ/

Pronoun

lib

1. second-person plural of la

Quotations

• 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. 13^b12

  Masu glé lib trá in precept ro·pridchus-sa .i. as·réracht Críst hó marbaib, cid dia léicid cundubairt for drécht úaib de resurrectione hominum?

  If, then, what I have preached is clear to you, namely that Christ has risen from the dead, why do you pl leave doubt on a portion of you concerning the resurrection of humans?

  (literally, “…the preaching that I have preached…”)

• 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. 14^a8

  Níba cuit adíll ⁊ cucuibsi, acht ainfa lib, ar nídad foirbthi-si; it foirbthi immurgu Macidonii.

  It will not be merely a passing visit to you pl, but I will remain with you, for you are not perfect; the Macedonians, however, are perfect.

Descendants

• Irish: libh
• Manx: lhiu
• Scottish Gaelic: leibh

Volapük

Noun

lib (nominative plural libs)

1. freedom
2. liberty

Declension

Declension of lib

	singular	plural
nominative	lib	libs
genitive	liba	libas
dative	libe	libes
accusative	libi	libis
vocative 1	o lib!	o libs!
predicative 2	libu	libus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only