anba

English

Noun

anba (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of amba (“type of mango pickle”).

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French en bas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃ba/

Adjective

anba

1. downstairs

   Antonym: anlè

Adverb

anba

1. below, downstairs

   Antonym: anlè

Preposition

anba

1. under; below; underneath

   Antonym: anlè

References

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 7

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish anba (“very great, huge, vast”, adjective).

Adjective

anba

1. (literary) great, prodigious

Mutation

Mutated forms of anba

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anba	n-anba	hanba	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “anba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 anba”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Japanese

Romanization

anba

1. Rōmaji transcription of あんば

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French en bas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃ba/

Adjective

anba

1. downstairs

   Antonym: lao

Adverb

anba

1. downstairs

   Antonym: lao

Preposition

anba

1. under; below; underneath

   Antonyms: lao, lor

References

• Carpooran, Arnaud (2011), Diksioner Morisien [Mauritian Dictionary] (in Mauritian Creole), second edition, Éditions Le Printemps, →ISBN, page 111