gibel

From German Gibel, Giebel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪbəl/

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gibel (plural gibels)

1. Prussian carp (Carassius gibelio).

• (Carassius gibelio): Cyprinus gibelio

• “gibel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• bilge, blige

• bigel (Upper Navarre)

Probably from Proto-Basque *gi- (“meat”) + *bel (“black, dark”), with metathesis in Navarrese.

• IPA^(key): /ɡibel/ [ɡi.β̞el]

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• Rhymes: -ibel, -el
• Hyphenation: gi‧bel

gibel inan

1. liver

gibel (comparative gibelago, superlative gibelen, excessive gibelegi)

1. shy, timid
2. withdrawn, retiring

gibel (comparative gibelago, superlative gibelen, excessive gibelegi)

1. behind

• Azkue, Resurrección María de (1905–1906), “gibel”, in Diccionario vasco-español-francés = Dictionnaire basque-espagnol-français [Basque-Spanish-French Dictionary], volume 1 (overall work in Spanish and French), Bilbao, page 345: “GIBEL: 1º (c), hígado, foie.”
• Larramendi, Manuel de (1745), Diccionario trilingue del castellano, bascuence, y latin (in Spanish), volume 1, San Sebastian: Bartholomè Riesgo y Montero, page 425: “Higado, guibelá. lat. Jecur, ris; hepar, tis.”
• R. L. Trask (2008), “gibel”, in Max W. Wheeler, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Basque, University of Sussex, page 205
• “gibel”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
• “gibel”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]