different between abaca vs abaci

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• abacá, abáca, abaka, abaká

Etymology

From Spanish abacá, from the Tagalog name for the plant, abaká.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æb.??k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æb.??k?/

Noun

abaca (countable and uncountable, plural abacas)

1. Musa textilis, a species of banana tree native to the Philippines grown for its textile, rope- and papermaking fibre. [First attested in the mid 18^th century.]

   Synonyms: Manila Hemp, Manilla hemp, textile banana

2. (uncountable) The fiber of this plant, used in rope. [First attested in the mid 18^th century.]

   Synonyms: Manila hemp, Manilla hemp

Translations

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: abaca

References

Anagrams

• Caaba

French

Etymology

From Spanish abacá, from the Tagalog name for the plant, abaká.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.ka/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /a.b?.k?/

Noun

abaca m (plural abacas)

1. a banana tree, the abaca
2. Manilla hemp

   Synonyms: chanvre de Manille, tagal

Further reading

• “abaca” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.ba.ka/
• Hyphenation: à?ba?ca

Noun

abaca m (invariable)

1. Alternative form of abacà

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English abaca, from Spanish abacá (“abaca, Manilla hemp”), from Tagalog abaká (“abaca, Manilla hemp”), from Arabic ?????? (?abaq, “abaca”), from Classical Syriac ????????? (??paqt?), ?????????? (?ap?qa?t?, “de-seeded cotton”) from ????? (pqa?, “to split, to reave, to crack”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?b??ka/
• Rhymes: -??ka
• Hyphenation: a?ba?ca

Noun

abaca m (definite singular abacaen, indefinite plural abacaer, definite plural abacaene)

1. (botany) Musa textilis, a species of banana tree native to the Philippines grown for its textile, rope- and papermaking fibre.
2. abaca (the fiber of the abaca plant, used in rope)

   Synonym: manilahamp

References

• “abaca” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “abaca” in Store norske leksikon

English

Etymology

From Latin abac?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æb?ka?/, /-sa?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æb??ka?/, /-?sa?/
• Hyphenation: aba?ci

Noun

abaci

1. plural of abacus

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b??i/
• Hyphenation: a?ba?ci

Noun

abáci m (plural abcitté f or abiicá f or abaacá f or aboocá f)

1. Alternative form of abíc

Declension

Usage notes

• The plural abcitté and abiicá are used in the southern dialects, whereas abaacá and aboocá are used in the northern dialects.

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985) , “abàci”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, ?ISBN
• Didier Morin (2012) , “ABACI”, in Dictionnaire afar-français (Djibouti, Erythrée, Ethiopie), Karthala, ?ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Albanian

Etymology

From Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abb?tia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aba?t?si]

Noun

abaci f (indefinite plural abací, definite singular abacía, definite plural abacítë)

1. abbacy, jurisdiction of an abbot
2. abbey

Declension

Related terms

• abat m

Further reading

• [2] noun abaci (indef./sg. abací; def./sg. abacía; indef./pl. abací; def./pl. abacítë) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

abaci

1. plural of abacus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.ba.ki?/, [?äbäki?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.ba.t??i/, [???b?t??i]

Noun

abac? m

1. genitive singular of abacus
2. nominative plural of abacus
3. vocative plural of abacus

Noun

abac? m

1. dative singular of abax