dezabiye

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French déshabiller (“to undress”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.za.bi.je/

Verb

dezabiye

  1. (transitive) to undress
    • 1953, Robert A. Hall Jr., Haitian Creole: grammar, texts, vocabulary‎[1], page 137:
      Yo prâ ni, yo dézabiyé li, yo gadé, yo wè sé-you fâm.
      [Yo pran ni, yo dezabiye li, yo gade, yo wè se-you fanm.]
      They took her, they undressed her, they looked and they saw she was a woman.

References

  • Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 50
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