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From Latin ab-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“off, away”) (English off, of).[1] Doublet of apo- and off-.

ab-

  1. (no longer productive) From.
    ‎ab- + ‎_sorb_ → ‎_absorb_
  2. (no longer productive) Away from; outside of.
    ‎ab- + ‎_normal_ → ‎_abnormal_
    ‎ab- + ‎_axial_ → ‎_abaxial_

Abbreviation of absolute.

ab-

  1. (physics) A unit of electromagnetic charge in the centimeter-gram-second system: the abcoulomb.

  2. ^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 1

From ab, from Middle High German abe, ab, from Old High German ab, from Proto-West Germanic *ab(a), from Proto-Germanic *ab. Compare English off-.

ab-

  1. Separable verb prefix that indicates removal or quitting, off, away.
    Synonym: aus-
    ‎ab- + ‎_fahren_ (“to drive”) → ‎_abfahren_ (“to depart, drive away”)
    ‎ab- + ‎_spülen_ (“to rinse, wash”) → ‎_abspülen_ (“to rinse off, wash off”)
  2. Separable verb prefix that indicates a downward movement, down.
    Synonyms: hinab-, herab-, runter-, herunter-, hinunter-
    ‎ab- + ‎_tauchen_ (“to dive”) → ‎_abtauchen_ (“to submerge”)
  3. Separable verb prefix that indicates from or of.
  4. Noun prefix that indicates being different from the source or deviation.
    ‎ab- + ‎_Art_ (“kind, sort”) → ‎_Abart_ (“variety, variant, anomality”)
    ‎ab- + ‎_Gott_ (“God”) → ‎_Abgott_ (“idol; god other than the true God”)
    ‎ab- + ‎_Laut_ (“sound”) → ‎_Ablaut_ (“ablaut; vowel gradation or alternation”)

From Dutch ab-, from Latin ab-.

ab-

  1. ab- (from; away from; outside of)

From Latin ab (“from, away from”).

ab-

  1. ab- (away from; outside of)

From the preposition ab (“from, away from”).

ab-

  1. from, away, away from
  2. off
  3. at a distance
  4. completely, thoroughly
  5. absence of
  6. more remote
  7. removed by three generations
    abamita (“great-great-grandaunt”)
    abavia (“great-great-grandmother”)
    abavunculus (“great-great-granduncle”)
    abavus (“great-great-grandfather”)
    abmātertera (“great-great-grandaunt”)
    abnepōs (“great-great-grandson”)
    abneptis (“great-great-granddaughter”)
    absocer (“great-great-grandfather-in-law”)

ab- (Jawi spelling اب-)

  1. ab-

Category Malay terms prefixed with ab- not found

Learned borrowing from Latin ab-.

ab-

  1. ab- (expresses the idea of intensity, separation, opposition)

Used followed by a hyphen before an element beginning with r that is not phonetically linked to the preceding element (e.g., ab-rogar).

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