Noun: xiba
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | xiba |
| Plural f | xibas |
Sample Sentences
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burazinos / panchozes tamañiños / Va jiba ou maragota / e si acasso ben pijota (little blackspot sea breams / and well sized axillary sea brams / With cuttlefish and ballan wrasse / and maybe also hake) [1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:]
Nouns inflected like xiba
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese siba, from Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía). Doublet of sepia See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
siba', Old Portuguese Nouns '
siba', Latin Nouns '
sēpia', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σηπία'.
Verbs referencing "xiba"
Portuguese Nouns
siba.
Translations