obi

See also: Obi

Translingual

Symbol

obi

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Obispeño terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoʊbi/
• Rhymes: -oʊbi

Etymology 1

English Wikipedia has an article on:

obi (sash)

Wikipedia

English Wikipedia has an article on:

obi (publishing)

Wikipedia

Borrowed from Japanese 帯 (obi, “belt”).

Noun

obi (plural obi or obis)

1. A sash worn with a kimono.
   • 1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Vintage, published 1998, page 29:

     The broad obi tied around her middle was orange and yellow. I'd never seen such elegant clothing.

   • 2001, Kikue Yamakawa, Kate Wildman Nakai, Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life:

     They had known nothing of woolen cloth, but now the popularity of obi made of imported grogram spread like wildfire. This popularity produced various stories in its wake.

2. A strip of paper looped around a book or other product.

Translations

a kimono sash

Chinese: Mandarin: 寬腰帶 / 宽腰带 (kuān yāodài) (no exact term exists) French: obi (fr) m Indonesian: obi (id) Japanese: 帯 (ja) (obi) Korean: 오비 (obi) Malay: obi (ms) Portuguese: obi m Russian: о́би (ru) m (óbi) Vietnamese: dải lưng thêu

Etymology 2

Noun

obi (countable and uncountable, plural obis)

1. Alternative form of obeah.

Derived terms

• obiism

Anagrams

• BOI, Bio, Boi, IBO, IOB, Ibo, bio, bio-, bio., boi

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɔ.βi]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɔ.bi]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan olbi, from Latin alveus.

Noun

obi m (plural obis)

1. trough (container for feeding or watering animals)

   Synonym: com

2. u-shaped valley, trough valley, glacial trough

   Synonym: com

Etymology 2

Noun

obi m (plural obis)

1. obi (sash worn with a kimono)

Further reading

• “obi” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “obi”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “obi”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese ouvir. Cognate with Kabuverdianu obi.

Verb

obi

1. to hear

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈobi]
• Hyphenation: obi
• Rhymes: -bi

Etymology 1

Clipping and -i diminutive of objektív (“camera lens”).

Noun

obi (plural obik)

1. (photography, informal) camera lens, photographic lens, objective

   Synonyms: objektív, optika

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	obi	obik
accusative	obit	obikat
dative	obinak	obiknak
instrumental	obival	obikkal
causal-final	obiért	obikért
translative	obivá	obikká
terminative	obiig	obikig
essive-formal	obiként	obikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	obiban	obikban
superessive	obin	obikon
adessive	obinál	obiknál
illative	obiba	obikba
sublative	obira	obikra
allative	obihoz	obikhoz
elative	obiból	obikból
delative	obiról	obikról
ablative	obitól	obiktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	obié	obiké
non-attributive possessive – plural	obiéi	obikéi

Possessive forms of obi

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	obim	obijaim (or obiim)
2nd person sing.	obid	obijaid (or obiid)
3rd person sing.	obija	obijai (or obii)
1st person plural	obink	obijaink (or obiink)
2nd person plural	obitok	obijaitok (or obiitok)
3rd person plural	obijuk	obijaik (or obiik)

Etymology 2

Ob (“[the river] Ob”) +‎ -i (adjective-forming suffix)

Adjective

obi (not comparable)

1. of, from, or related to the river Ob or its watershed

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	obi	obiak
accusative	obit	obiakat
dative	obinak	obiaknak
instrumental	obival	obiakkal
causal-final	obiért	obiakért
translative	obivá	obiakká
terminative	obiig	obiakig
essive-formal	obiként	obiakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	obiban	obiakban
superessive	obin	obiakon
adessive	obinál	obiaknál
illative	obiba	obiakba
sublative	obira	obiakra
allative	obihoz	obiakhoz
elative	obiból	obiakból
delative	obiról	obiakról
ablative	obitól	obiaktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	obié	obiaké
non-attributive possessive – plural	obiéi	obiakéi

Derived terms

• obi-ugor

Further reading

• Ob-Ugric languages (Wikipedia)