qaib

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Azerbaijani[edit]

Other scripts
Cyrillic гаиб
Abjad

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic غَائِب (ḡāʔib).

Adjective[edit]

qaib (comparative daha qaib, superlative ən qaib)

  1. absent

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • “qaib” in Obastan.com.

White Hmong[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *Kəi (“chicken”), likely borrowed from Chinese 鷄／鸡 (jī, “id”). Compare also Proto-Tai *kajᴮ (“id”), whence Lao ໄກ່ (kai, “id”) and Thai ไก่ (gài, “id”).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

qaib (classifier: tus)

  1. chicken

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 257-8.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 97; 281.
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