ibis

From Latin ībis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian hbj,

(compare Coptic ϩⲓⲃⲱⲓ (hibōi) or ϩⲓⲡ (hip)).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ.bɪs/

ibis (plural ibises or ibides)

1. Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:

     It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.

• Australian white ibis
• sacred ibis
• straw-necked ibis

From Latin ībis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian

hby (hîbu).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.bis/

ibis m (plural ibis)

1. ibis

• Hyphenation: i‧bis

ibis

1. the Asiatic glassfish; any member of the family Ambassidae
2. the Indian pellona (Pellona ditchella)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪbɪs/

ibis m

1. ibis

• ibis in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• ibis in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Middle Dutch ibis, from Latin ibis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian hbj.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.bɪs/, /ˈi.bəs/

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• Hyphenation: ibis

ibis m (plural ibissen, diminutive ibisje n)

1. ibis, bird of the family

• bruine ibis
• rode ibis
• witte ibis
• zwarte ibis

• IPA^(key): /i.bis/

ibis m (plural ibis)

1. ibis

• “ibis” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin ībis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian hbj.

• IPA^(key): /ˈibis/, [ˈiː.bis̪]
• Hyphenation: ì‧bis

ibis m (invariable)

1. ibis

• ibis eremita

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.bis/, [ˈiː.bɪs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.bis/, [ˈiː.bis]

From Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian hbj:

ībis f (genitive ībis or ībidis); third declension

1. ibis (wading bird)

Inflected form of eō (“go, proceed”).

ībis

1. second-person singular future active indicative of eō

• ibis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ibis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ibis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• ibis in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• ibis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

ibis

1. third-person singular preterite absolute of ibid

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.bʲis/

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ibis m anim

1. ibis (bird)

• IPA^(key): /ˈibis/, [ˈiβis]

ibis m (plural ibis)

1. ibis

ibis

1. pagkaibis : relief from pain

ibis

1. maibsan : to be relieved from
2. ibisan : to unload