different between gim vs gib

English

Etymology

Compare gimp (adjective).

Adjective

gim (comparative more gim, superlative most gim)

1. (dialect, dated) neat; spruce

Anagrams

• IGM, IMG, IgM, MIG, MiG, Mig

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Betawi gim, from Hokkien ? (kim, “gold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???m]

Noun

gim (first-person possessive gimku, second-person possessive gimmu, third-person possessive gimnya)

1. (Jakarta) gold thread

Etymology 2

From English game, from Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-Germanic *gaman? (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???m]

Noun

gim (first-person possessive gimku, second-person possessive gimmu, third-person possessive gimnya)

1. game

   Synonym: permainan

Etymology 3

From English game point.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???m]

Noun

gim (first-person possessive gimku, second-person possessive gimmu, third-person possessive gimnya)

1. (colloquial) game point

Further reading

• “gim” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English game.

Noun

gim

1. game

Portuguese

Etymology

From English gin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

gim m (plural gins)

1. gin (liquor made with juniper berries)

Zhuang

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese ? (MC k?i?m). Cognate with Thai ?? (kam), Northern Thai ???, Lao ?? (kham), Lü ?? (xam), Shan ???? (khám), Ahom ???????? (kham) or ???????????? (khram), Saek ?????.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /kim??/
• Tone numbers: gim¹
• Hyphenation: gim

Noun

gim (old orthography gim)

1. gold

English

Etymology 1

Unknown (18th century). Perhaps abbreviated from Gilbert, the name of the cat in the old story of Reynard the Fox, in the Romaunt of the Rose, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b/
• UK sometimes also IPA^(key): /d??b/

Noun

gib (plural gibs)

1. A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.
2. A castrated male cat or ferret.
3. A male cat; a tomcat.
4. A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.

Translations

Verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

1. To fasten in place with a gib.

Etymology 2

Shortened from giblet.

Noun

gib (plural gibs)

1. (video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.

Verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

1. (transitive, video games) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.

Etymology 3

From the trademark GIB, registered by Fletcher Building Holdings Limited, the major brand of plasterboard in New Zealand.

Pronunciation

• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /d??b/

Noun

gib (uncountable)

1. (New Zealand) plasterboard.

Verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

1. (New Zealand) To install plasterboard.

Anagrams

• BIG, GBI, big

Afar

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (jayb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ib/

Noun

gib m (plural giibitté f or gibwá f)

1. pocket

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?p/ (chiefly in formal speech)
• IPA^(key): /??p/ (overall more common)
• Rhymes: -i?p, -?p

Verb

gib

1. singular imperative of geben
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of geben

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• gibaj

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ip/

Verb

gib

1. second-person singular imperative of giba?

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ip/

Verb

gib

1. second-person singular imperative of giba?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gyb?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?î?b/

Noun

g?b m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. movement (of body or a body part)
2. fold
3. joint

Declension

References

• “gib” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal