obi

From Japanese 帯 (おび) (obi).

obi (plural obi)

1. A sash worn with a kimono.
   • 1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha (Vintage 1998, p. 29)

     The broad obi tied around her middle was orange and yellow. I'd never seen such elegant clothing.

   • 2001, Kikue Yamakawa, ‎Kate Wildman Nakai, Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life:

     They had known nothing of woolen cloth, but now the popularity of obi made of imported grogram spread like wildfire. This popularity produced various stories in its wake.

2. A strip of paper looped around a book or other product.

obi (countable and uncountable, plural obis)

1. Alternative form of obeah

• BOI, Bio, Boi, IBO, IOB, Ibo, bio, bio-, bio., boi

obi m (plural obis)

1. trough (container for feeding or watering animals)

• cóm

• “obi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Portuguese ouvir. Cognates with Kabuverdianu obi.

obi

1. to hear

Shortened from objektív (“camera lens”) +‎ -i (“diminutive suffix”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈobi]
• Hyphenation: obi

obi (plural obik)

1. (photography, slang) camera lens, photographic lens, objective

   Synonyms: objektív, optika

Borrowed from Japanese 帯 (おび, obi, “obi, belt”).

• IPA^(key): /o.bi/
• Hyphenation: o‧bi

obi (plural obi-obi, first-person possessive obiku, second-person possessive obimu, third-person possessive obinya)

1. obi, a sash.

Borrowed from Japanese 帯 (おび, obi, “obi, belt”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.bi/, [ˈɔːbi]
• Rhymes: -ɔbi
• Stress: òbi
• Hyphenation: o‧bi

obi m (invariable)

1. obi (sash worn with a kimono)

• chimono

• obi in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

obi

1. Rōmaji transcription of おび

From Portuguese ouvir.

obi

1. to hear

obī

1. second-person singular active imperative of obeō

obi

1. (accusative singular of ob) me