아비

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [a̠bi]
• Phonetic hangul: [아비]

First attested as Late Old Korean 丫秘 in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사)^[1], 1103. In the hangul script, first attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 아비〮 (Yale: àpí).

아비 • (abi)

1. Disrespectful term for another person's father.
2. Term of address for the speaker's son who is married and has children.
3. (archaic) father (in works dating from the 15th-17th centuries)

• 아빠 (appa)
• 아버지 (abeoji)

• National Institute of the Korean Language (Naver.com mirror) (31 December 2006 (last accessed)), “아비 [abi]”, in 표준국어대사전 [pyojun'gugeodaesajeon]‎^[2]
• National Institute of the Korean Language (Naver.com mirror) (31 December 2006 (last accessed)), “아비 [abi]”, in 표준국어대사전 [pyojun'gugeodaesajeon]‎^[3]

Sino-Korean word from 阿比, from 阿 (“hill”) + 比 (“to compare”).

아비 • (abi)

1. (ornithology) a loon or diver; any diving bird of the family Gaviidae
2. the red-throated loon, Gavia stellata

• 검은부리아비 (geomeunburiabi, “great northern diver”)
• 회색머리아비 (hoesaengmeoriabi, “Pacific loon”)
• 흰부리아비 (huinburiabi, “white-billed diver”)

• National Institute of the Korean Language (Naver.com mirror) (31 December 2006 (last accessed)), “아비 [abi]”, in 표준국어대사전 [pyojun'gugeodaesajeon]‎^[4]

Sino-Korean word from 阿鼻, a transcription of Sanskrit अवीचि (Avīci, literally “without waves”).

• 아비지옥(阿鼻地獄) (abijiok)

아비 • (abi)

1. (Buddhism) a Buddhist hell, one of the eight fiery hells

• 무간지옥(無間地獄) - Avīci (a hell with endless suffering)

• National Institute of the Korean Language (Naver.com mirror) (31 December 2006 (last accessed)), “아비 [abi]”, in 표준국어대사전 [pyojun'gugeodaesajeon]‎^[5]

Sino-Korean word from 衙婢, from 衙 (“public office”) + 婢 (“female servant”).

아비 • (abi) (hanja 衙婢)

1. (archaic) a local official's informal term of address for a servant girl

• National Institute of the Korean Language (Naver.com mirror) (31 December 2006 (last accessed)), “아비 [abi]”, in 표준국어대사전 [pyojun'gugeodaesajeon]‎^[6]