different between chib vs chia

English

Alternative forms

• chiv, shiv, shive

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t??b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

chib (plural chibs)

1. (Scotland, Tyneside, slang) A shiv (makeshift knife).

Verb

chib (third-person singular simple present chibs, present participle chibbing, simple past and past participle chibbed)

1. (Scotland, Tyneside, slang) To shiv (stab).

References

• Scottish Vernacular Dictionary

Anagrams

• Bich

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chía, from Classical Nahuatl chiyan (“seed of the chia plant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i?.?/
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

chia (countable and uncountable, plural chias)

1. A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.
2. Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

Translations

Anagrams

• AHCI, Achi, chai

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

chia (inanimate)

1. Obsolete spelling of chiyan

Esperanto

Determiner

chia

1. H-system spelling of ?ia

French

Verb

chia

1. third-person singular past historic of chier

Min Nan

Portuguese

Verb

chia

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of chiar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of chiar

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [t??i???]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [t??i???]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ci???]

Verb

chia

1. (arithmetic) to divide

2. to distribute or share (something among a group of people)
3. (grammar) to conjugate

Derived terms