cabe

See also: Cabe and cabé

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ħaˈbe/ [ħʌˈbɛ]
• Hyphenation: ca‧be

Verb

cabé (causative cabsiisé)

1. (intransitive) leave
2. (intransitive) depart
3. (intransitive) cease
4. (intransitive) divorce

Conjugation

Conjugation of cabe (type II verb)
		1st singular	2nd singular	3rd singular		1st plural	2nd plural	3rd plural
				m	f
perfective	V-affirmative	cabéh	cabtéh	cabéh	cabtéh	cabnéh	cabteeníh	cabeeníh
	N-affirmative	cabé	cabté	cabé	cabté	cabné	cabtén	cabén
	negative	mácabinniyo	mácabinnito	mácabinna	mácabinna	mácabinnino	mácabinniton	mácabinnon
imperfective	V-affirmative	cabáh	cabtáh	cabáh	cabtáh	cabnáh	cabtaanáh	cabaanáh
	N-affirmative	cabá	cabtá	cabá	cabtá	cabná	cabtán	cabán
	negative	mácaba	mácabta	mácaba	mácabta	mácabna	mácabtan	mácaban
prospective	V-affirmative	cabéliyoh cabéyyoh	cabélitoh cabéttoh	cabéleh	cabéleh	cabélinoh cabénnoh	cabélitoonuh cabéttoonuh	cabéloonuh
	N-affirmative	cabéliyo cabéyyo	cabélito cabétto	cabéle	cabéle	cabélino cabénno	cabéliton cabétton	cabélon
conjunctive I	V-affirmative	cábuh	cábtuh	cábuh	cábtuh	cábuh	cabtóonuh	cabóonuh
	N-affirmative	cábu	cábtu	cábu	cábtu	cábu	cabtón	cabón
	negative	cabé wáyuh	cabé wáytuh	cabé wáyuh	cabé wáytuh	cabé wáynuh	cabé waytóonuh	cabé wóonuh
conjunctive II	V-affirmative	cabánkeh	cabtánkeh	cabánkeh	cabtánkeh	cabnánkeh	cabtaanánkeh	cabaanánkeh
	N-affirmative	cabánke	cabtánke	cabánke	cabtánke	cabnánke	cabtaanánke	cabaanánke
	negative	cabé wáankeh	cabé waytánkeh	cabé wáankeh	cabé waytánkeh	cabé waynánkeh	cabé waytaanánkeh	cabé wáankeh
jussive	affirmative	cábay	cábtay	cábay	cábtay	cábnay	cabtóonay	cabóonay
	negative	cabé wáay	cabé wáytay	cabé wáay	cabé wáytay	cabé wáynay	cabé waytóonay	cabé wóonay
past conditional	affirmative	cabinniyóy	cabinnitóy	cabinnáy	cabinnáy	cabinninóy	cabinnitoonúy	cabinnoonúy
	negative	cabé wanniyóy	cabé wannitóy	cabé wannáy	cabé wannáy	cabé wanninóy	cabé wannitoonúy	cabé wanninoonúy
present conditional I	affirmative	cabék	cabték	cabék	cabték	cabnék	cabteeník	cabeeník
	negative	cabé wéek	cabé wayték	cabé wéek	cabé wayték	cabé waynék	cabé wayteeník	cabé weeník
		singular	plural			singular	plural
consultative	affirmative	cabóo	cabnóo	imperative	affirmative	cáb	cába
	negative	macabóo	macabnóo		negative	mácabin	mácabina
-h converb	-i form	-k converb	-in(n)uh converb	-innuk converb	infinitive	indefinite participle
						V-focus	N-focus
cábah	cábi	cábak	cabínnuh	cabínnuk	cabíyya	cabináanih	cabináan
Compound tenses dependent verb sequential perfective + -m simultaneous imperfective + -m past perfect affirmative perfective + perfective of én or sugé present perfect affirmative perfective + imperfective of én future perfect affirmative perfective + prospective of sugé past progressive -k converb + imperfective of én or sugé present progressive affirmative imperfect + imperfective of én future progressive -k converb + prospective of sugé immediate future affirmative conjunctive I + imperfective of wée imperfect potential I affirmative conjunctive I + imperfective of takké imperfect potential II affirmative imperfective + -m + takké negative cabé + imperfective of wée + -m + takké perfect potential affirmative perfective + -m + takké negative cabé + perfective of wée + -m + takké present conditional II affirmative imperfective + object pronoun + tekkék negative cabé + perfective of wée + object pronoun + tekkék perfect conditional affirmative perfective + imperfective of sugé + -k negative perfective + sugé + imperfective of wée -k irrealis cabé + perfective of xaaxé or raaré

Derived terms

• cabtí

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “cabe”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Enid M. Parker (2006), English-Afar dictionary, Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 1
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 267

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡saˈbɛ/

Noun

cabe

1. Dialectical form of cjap (“billy goat”).

Galician

Verb

cabe

1. inflection of caber:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃabe/ [ˈt͡ʃa.be]
• Rhymes: -abe
• Syllabification: ca‧be

Etymology 1

Noun

cabé (plural cabe-cabe)

1. (colloquial) alternative spelling of cabai

Etymology 2

Noun

cabé (plural cabe-cabe)

1. (colloquial, slang) Abbreviation of cewek alay bisa diewe (literally “alay girl that can be fucked”)

Further reading

• “cabe”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Javanese

Romanization

cabe

1. alternative spelling of cabé, romanization of ꦕꦧꦺ

Latin

Noun

cabe

1. vocative singular of cabus

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.be/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bɨ/ [ˈka.βɨ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -abi, (Portugal) -abɨ
• Hyphenation: ca‧be

Verb

cabe

1. inflection of caber:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

A contraction of a cabo de; a deriving from Latin ad, cabo from Latin caput, and de from Latin de.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabe/ [ˈka.β̞e]
• Rhymes: -abe
• Syllabification: ca‧be

Preposition

cabe

1. (archaic) alongside, beside, next to

Verb

cabe

1. inflection of caber:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cabe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025