different between diable vs dibble

English

Etymology

From French (à la) diable, from diable (“devil”), from Old French. Doublet of devil, diablo, and diabolus.

Noun

diable (plural diables)

1. An unglazed earthenware casserole dish.

Adjective

diable (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Flavored with hot spices.

   sauce diable

Anagrams

• Abdiel, Idabel, bailed, baldie, belaid, bidale, dabeli, déblai

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diábolos).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /di?a.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /di?a.ble/
• Rhymes: -a?le

Noun

diable m (plural diables)

1. devil

Derived terms

• advocat del diable
• diables
• endiablar

Related terms

• diabòlic

Further reading

• “diable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “diable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “diable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “diable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Esperanto

Etymology

diablo +? -e

Adverb

diable

1. devilishly (in a way characteristic of the devil)
2. terribly, awfully

Interjection

diable

1. deuce, damn

French

Alternative forms

• yiable (Canada)

Etymology

From Middle French diable, from Old French diable, deable, a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diábolos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djabl/, /dj?bl/
• (Louisiana, also) IPA^(key): [d??b], [d?awb], [d?abul]

Noun

diable m (plural diables)

1. (religion, mythology) devil
2. (colloquial) rogue, (old) devil
3. hand truck
   • 1954 Institut français d'Afrique noire, Mémoires de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire, p.179

     ... l'ensemble a l'aspect d'une brouette ou d'un diable, mais ne peut être que tiré, car, en poussant, la roue sortirait ...

     ... the whole has the appearance of a wheelbarrow or a hand truck, but can only be pulled, because, when pushed, the wheel would come out ...

   • 1996 Charles-Édouard de Suremain, Jours ordinaires à la finca: une grande plantation de café au Guatemala p.172

     En milieu d'après-midi, juste avant la pluie, un ouvrier ramasse le café de consommation à l'aide d'un « diable », une sorte de repoussoir en bois qui a la forme d'une caisse ouverte, qu'il pousse devant lui.

     By mid-afternoon, just before the rain, a worker picks the coffee for consumption with the aid of a "devil", a kind of trolley of wood in the form of an open box, which is pushed before you.

   • 2011 Louis Cagin and Laetitia Nicolas, Construire en pierre sèche p.35

     Déplacer une pierre avec une brouette ou un diable

     Moving a stone with a wheelbarrow or a hand truck

     Diable à roues pneumatiques

     hand truck with pneumatic wheels.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: dyab
• ? English: diable, diablo

Proper noun

le diable m

1. the Devil

Interjection

diable

1. (dated) dash it!, deuce!

Further reading

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

Middle French

Alternative forms

• Diable (proper noun)
• dyable

Etymology

From Old French diable, deable.

Proper noun

le diable m

1. the Devil

Noun

diable m (plural diables)

1. devil

Adjective

diable m or f (plural diables)

1. evil

Descendants

• French: diable, yiable
  • Haitian Creole: dyab
  • ? English: diable, diablo
• Norman: dgiâbl'ye

References

• diable on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old French

Proper noun

diable m (nominative singular diables)

1. Alternative form of deable

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?djab.l?/

Adjective

diable

1. inflection of diabli:
   1. neuter nominative singular
   2. neuter accusative singular
   3. neuter vocative singular
   4. nonvirile nominative plural
   5. nonvirile accusative plural
   6. nonvirile vocative plural

Noun

diable m

1. inflection of diabe?:
   1. locative singular
   2. vocative singular

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?d?b(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?b?l
• Hyphenation: dib?ble

Etymology 1

Possibly dib (“to dab lightly”) +? -le (“frequentative suffix indicating repetition or continuousness”); however, the word dibble is attested earlier than dib.

Noun

dibble (plural dibbles)

1. A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which to set out plants or to plant seeds.

Synonyms

• dib
• dibber

Translations

Verb

dibble (third-person singular simple present dibbles, present participle dibbling, simple past and past participle dibbled)

1. (transitive) To make holes or plant seeds using, or as if using, a dibble.
   • 1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, chapter 12, in The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia; 1), London: The Bodley Head, ?OCLC; republished London: Collins, 1998, ?ISBN:

     It was Digory who had the bright idea of eating four each and planting the ninth; for, as he said, "if the bar off the lamp-post turned into a little light-tree, why shouldn’t this turn into a toffee-tree?" So they dibbled a small hole in the turf and buried the piece of toffee.

2. (intransitive) To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil.
3. (intransitive) To dib or dip frequently, as in angling.
   • 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 25 p. 106[1]:

     And neere to them ye see the lesser dibling Teale

Related terms

• dibber
• dibbly
• dibbly-dobbler

Etymology 2

From the character of Officer Charlie Dibble, a New York Police Department officer, in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Top Cat (first broadcast in the US in 1961, and in the UK in 1962 under the title Boss Cat).

Noun

dibble (countable and uncountable, plural dibbles)

1. (slang, Britain, originally Manchester, countable) A police officer.
2. (slang, Britain, originally Manchester, uncountable) Preceded by the: the police.

Synonyms

• (a police officer): See Thesaurus:police officer
• (the police): See Thesaurus:police

Further reading

• dibble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• debbil, libbed