fab
Translingual
Etymology
Initialism of Portuguese Fala de Ano-Bom.
Symbol
fab
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Annobonese terms
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fæb/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æb
Etymology 1
Etymology tree
From fabulous, by shortening.
Adjective
fab (comparative fabber, superlative fabbest)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From fabricate and its derived terms, by shortening.
Noun
fab (plural fabs)
- (informal) A manufacturing plant which fabricates items, particularly silicon chips.
- The chip fab will double its production next year.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Verb
fab (third-person singular simple present fabs, present participle fabbing, simple past and past participle fabbed)
- (informal, transitive) To fabricate, especially in the context of fabbers
- It uses digital data from a computer to “fab” products and models of new products.
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- ^ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, p. 652 →ISBN
Anagrams
Volapük
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fab/
Noun
fab (genitive faba, plural fabs)
Declension
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fab | fabs |
| Genitive | faba | fabas |
| Dative | fabe | fabes |
| Accusative | fabi | fabis |
| Predicative1 | fabu | fabus |
| Vocative | o fab | o fabs |
- Introduced in Volapük Nulik.
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vaːb/
Noun
fab m
- soft mutation of mab
Mutation
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
|---|---|---|---|
| mab | fab | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
White Hmong
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa˥/
Etymology 1
Adjective
fab
Verb
fab
- to grow excessively
Derived terms
- hav fab (“dense grass, overgrown valley”)
Etymology 2
Noun
fab
Classifier
fab
- classifier for sections and divisions
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Chinese 方 (fāng, “direction”).
Noun
fab
- used in xwm fab (“square, four-sided”)
Etymology 4
Verb
fab
- to be upset, distressed, confused
- to be allergic to
- Nws fab tshuaj tuag. ― It died of allergic reaction to medicine.
Derived terms
- mob fab (“of a fit or coma after eating something that doesn't agree”)
- siab fab (“upset, confused”)
References
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary[2], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 42.
- ^ Jaisser, Annie; Ratliff, Martha; Riddle, Elizabeth; Strecker, David; Vang, Lopao; Vang, Lyfu (1995), Hmong For Beginners[1], Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley, page 28.