didi

See also: Didi, di-di, dìdi, dīdì, and ɗiɗi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi दीदी (dīdī, literally “an elder sister, used as a form of respect”).

Noun

didi (plural didis)

  1. (India) A respectful term of address to any familiar older female.

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Compare titi.

Noun

didi

  1. (childish) a baby bottle

Verb

didi

  1. (childish) to nurse; to suck

Etymology 2

Undetermined.

Noun

didi

  1. to slit

Ewe

Etymology

From Proto-Gbe *dĩdĩ.[1] Cognates include Aja (West Africa) jĩjĩ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dì.dì/, [d̪ì.d̪ì]

Adjective

dìdì

  1. far away, distant
  2. away, afar, apart
  3. long, lengthy, elongated

References

  1. ^ Capo, Hounkpati B.C. (1991), A Comparative Phonology of Gbe (Publications in African Languages and Linguistics; 14), Berlin/New York; Garome, Benin: Foris Publications & Labo Gbe (Int), pages 215, 223
  • Jim-Fugar, Dr. M.K.N.; Jim-Fugar, Nicholine (2017), “didi”, in Nuseline's Ewe-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Togo: Independently published, →ISBN, page 46

Gullah

Gullah numbers (edit)
 ←  1 2 3  → 
    African Cardinal: didi
    American Cardinal: two
    Ordinal: seckint, didi
    Adverbial: fuh seckint
    Multiplier: didi-time
    Collective: alltwo, boff

Alternative forms

  • 'didi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔdi.di/

Etymology 1

From Fula didi.

Adjective

didi

  1. second

Number

didi

  1. two

Usage notes

  • Gullah communicates both the number and its ordinal adjective in the same word.

Etymology 2

From Vai didi ("a small reddish or black ant").

Noun

didi

  1. bug, especially a brown bug that lives in the earth

References

  • Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)

Latin

Verb

dīdī

  1. present passive infinitive of dīdō

Limos Kalinga

Adverb

didí

  1. there (far from both the speaker and the listener)

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From Hindi दीदी (dīdī).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /didi/

Noun

didi

  1. sister
    Synonym: ser

Mokilese

Etymology

From did (“wall”) +‎ -i (transitive marker)

Verb

didi

  1. (transitive) to wall in

References

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