wab

From English Wab.

wab

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Wab.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Wab terms

wab

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of wꜥb.

• o̧b

Borrowed from English wharf.

• (phonetics) IPA^(key): [wɑpˠ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wæpˠ/
• Bender phonemes: {wab}

wab

1. a pier
2. a wharf
3. a berth
4. a dock

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

• Rhymes: -ap
• Syllabification: wab

Deverbal from wabić.

wab m inan

1. (hunting) the act of luring game

or

wab m animal

1. allure (quality causing attraction)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wab

1. second-person singular imperative of wabić

• wab in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wab in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “wab”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “wab”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

From Middle English web, webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).

wab (plural wabs)

1. web

Borrowed from English wap.

• IPA^(key): /wab/
• Rhymes: -ab

wab m (plural wabiau, diminutive waben, not mutable)

1. slap, light blow

   Synonyms: cernod, ffaten, slap

• dan wab (“under the thumb”)

H-prothesis does not affect this word as the ⟨w⟩ here represents the semivowel /w/ rather than a vowel sound.

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “wab”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies