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bim

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bim"

Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Bimoba.

Symbol

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bim

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bimoba.

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English

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Etymology

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From bimbo.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Australia):(file)

Noun

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bim (plural bims)

  1. (slang) A woman.

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References

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  • Tony Thorne (2014), “bim”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London;  […]: Bloomsbury

Anagrams

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Gullah

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Etymology

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From Temne bim (“sound of beating of striking”).

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Adverb

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bim

  1. violently

Interjection

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bim

  1. imitating a loud sound

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  • Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)

Kamkata-viri

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nuristani *buma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰúHma, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be”).

Noun

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bim m (Western (Ktivi), Northeastern)[1][2]

  1. earth

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  1. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016), “b′im”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎[1]
  2. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2024). A Grammatical Description of the Katë Language (Nuristani) (PhD thesis). Köln: Universität zu Köln.

Old High German

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *biumi, from Proto-Germanic *biumi.

Verb

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bim

  1. first-person singular present indicative of sīn

Descendants

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  • Middle High German: bin

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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short for bim bim (“crisps, potato chips”)

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Noun

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bim

  1. short for bim bim (“crisps, potato chips”)

Volapük

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English beam and/or German Baum (“tree”).

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Noun

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bim (genitive bima, plural bims)

  1. tree
    • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: VII:
      Bim gudik no kanon prodön flukis badik, ed i no bim puridik flukis jönik.
      A sound tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor a rotten tree bear good fruit.

Declension

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Declension of bim
Singular Plural
Nominative bim bims
Genitive bima bimas
Dative bime bimes
Accusative bimi bimis
Predicative1 bimu bimus
Vocative o bim o bims
  1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Derived terms

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Terms derived from bim "tree"

Volscian

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Etymology

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Unknown. Possibly from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Cognates with Latin bos, Umbrian bum, Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs), Sanskrit गो (go). This etymology is disputed, Blanca María Prósper argues that the Proto-Indo-European accusative singular *gʷṓm should have evolved into *bum, not bim. Other, controversial, proposals to rectify this concern are that the vocalism may have adapted itself to match sim or that bim may have merely evolved from *bum.

Another theory holds that it may derive from Proto-Italic *wīs, from Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s, itself from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-. If this were true, the term would be cognates with Latin vis, Sanskrit वयस् (vayas), and Ancient Greek ῑ̓́ς (ī́s). It has also been connected to Paelignian biam (“sacellum”), although hypothesis is not supported by the majority of linguists.

Noun

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bim (accusative singular)

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: ox, force, power

References

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  • 2022, Blanca María Prósper, “The Tabula Veliterna: a sacred law from Central Italy”, in Rivista Italiana di Linguistica e dialettologia‎[2], number XXIV (quotation in English; overall work in English), pages 10-11:
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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