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English

Alternative forms

• guiba

Noun

guib (plural guibs)

1. A West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground; the harnessed antelope.

Italian

Noun

guib m (invariable)

1. (any of various antelopes with vertical white stripes on the back)
2. bushbuck, guib, harnessed bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus
3. kéwel

   Synonym: tragelafo striato

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?p/

Noun

guib m

1. genitive singular of gob
2. plural of gob

Mutation

English

Etymology 1

Unknown (18th century). Perhaps abbreviated from Gilbert, the name of the cat in the old story of Reynard the Fox, in the Romaunt of the Rose, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b/
• UK sometimes also IPA^(key): /d??b/

Noun

gib (plural gibs)

1. A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.
2. A castrated male cat or ferret.
3. A male cat; a tomcat.
4. A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.

Translations

Verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

1. To fasten in place with a gib.

Etymology 2

Shortened from giblet.

Noun

gib (plural gibs)

1. (video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.

Verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

1. (transitive, video games) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.

Etymology 3

From the trademark GIB, registered by Fletcher Building Holdings Limited, the major brand of plasterboard in New Zealand.

Pronunciation

• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /d??b/

Noun

gib (uncountable)

1. (New Zealand) plasterboard.

Verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

1. (New Zealand) To install plasterboard.

Anagrams

• BIG, GBI, big

Afar

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (jayb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ib/

Noun

gib m (plural giibitté f or gibwá f)

1. pocket

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?p/ (chiefly in formal speech)
• IPA^(key): /??p/ (overall more common)
• Rhymes: -i?p, -?p

Verb

gib

1. singular imperative of geben
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of geben

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• gibaj

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ip/

Verb

gib

1. second-person singular imperative of giba?

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ip/

Verb

gib

1. second-person singular imperative of giba?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gyb?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?î?b/

Noun

g?b m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. movement (of body or a body part)
2. fold
3. joint

Declension

References

• “gib” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal