tib

See also: TiB

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Tibetan.

Symbol

tib

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Tibetan.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tibetan terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪb/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪb

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of tibia.

Noun

tib (plural tibs)

1. (medicine, informal) A tibia.

See also

• fib

Etymology 2

Unknown; perhaps from a pet form of Isabel.

Noun

tib (plural tibs)

1. (obsolete) A working-class woman.
2. (obsolete) A prostitute.
   • c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:

     every Coystril that comes inquiring for his Tib

   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:

     But this woman was, he thought, no tib, no purveyor of holy mutton.

3. (obsolete) A young girl, a sweetheart.

See also

• tib out

Anagrams

• B.I.T., Bti, ITB, TBI, bit

Lapaguía-Guivini Zapotec

Etymology

Akin to Zaniza Zapotec tib.

Numeral

tib

1. one

References

• Basic Vocabulary, psge 53

Maltese

Verb

tib

1. second-person singular imperative of tieb

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic طِبّ (ṭibb). Compare Turkish tıp.

Noun

tib f

1. medicine (field of study)

Declension

Declension of tib

definite feminine gender
case	singular	plural
nominative	tib	tib
construct	tiba	tibên
oblique	tibê	tiban
demonstrative oblique	wê tibê	wan tiban
vocative	tibê	tibino
indefinite feminine gender
case	singular	plural
nominative	tibek	tibin
construct	tibeke	tibine
oblique	tibekê	tibinan

Related terms

• tebîb
• tibî

Uzbek

Other scripts

Arabic (Afghan Uzbek)		طب
Cyrillic		тиб
Latin		—

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai طب (ṭb), from Arabic طِبّ (ṭibb).

Noun

tib (plural tiblar)

1. medicine

Related terms

• tibbiy (“medical”)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English tubbe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪb/

Noun

tib (plural tibbès)

1. tub

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72

Zaniza Zapotec

Etymology

Akin to Lapaguía-Guivini Zapotec tib.

Numeral

tib

1. one