combi

Clipping of combination.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmbi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmbi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒmbi

combi (plural combis or combies)

1. (aviation) An aircraft adapted to carry either cargo or passengers, or both at once.
2. (attributively) Clipping of combination.

   My old combi boiler broke down.

3. Ellipsis of combi boiler.
   • 2013 July 9, Adrian, “Re: OT Are all heating engineers touchy?”, in uk.d-i-y‎^[1] (Usenet):

     The combi at our last place was just fine for rads and showers. The biggest restriction was the speed of filling the bath...

4. (South Africa) Alternative form of kombi.

• combi boiler
• combi deck
• combi drill

Either shortened from combinatiewagen or combinatie, or borrowed from German Kombi, used in Volkswagen Kombi (whence also Afrikaans kombi and South African English kombi).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔm.bi/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: com‧bi

combi m (plural combi's, diminutive combietje n or combieke n)

1. combination, combi
2. minivan, kombi

   Synonym: combinatiewagen

3. (Belgium) police van

• [2]

Borrowed from German Kombi.

combi n (uncountable)

1. station wagon

• IPA^(key): /ˈkombi/ [ˈkõm.bi]
• Rhymes: -ombi
• Syllabification: com‧bi

combi m or f same meaning (plural combis)

1. (Latin America) minivan

• “combi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “combi”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010