gibi

Genericized trademark from Gibi, a comic book with a black boy as its mascot.

• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: gi‧bi

gibi m (plural gibis)

1. (obsolete, derogatory, Brazil) black boy
2. (Brazil) comics; comic book

   Synonyms: banda desenhada, revista em quadrinhos

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:gibi.

• romance gráfico
• fanzine

• “gibi”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024

From Ottoman Turkish گبی (gibi), from Proto-Turkic *kēpi (“like”). Doublet of kip. Cognate with Azerbaijani kimi and Uzbek kabi.

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈbi/, (sometimes, when used alone) /ˈɡi.bi/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: gi‧bi

gibi

1. like, similar to

   Annen gibi konuşuyorsun.

   You are talking like your mother.

2. such as

   Hayvanat bahçelerinde kangurular, filler ve zürafalar gibi hayvanlar bulunabilir.

   Animals such as kangaroos, elephants, and giraffes can be found in zoos.

3. as, like (as explained before; in a certain manner)
   • 2011, “Makyaj [Makeup]”, in Diğer Masallar [Other Stories], performed by Model:

     Çok uğraştım inan unutmak için seni / O gün sarıldığımızda söz verdiğim gibi

     Believe me, I tried hard to forget you / Like I promised when we hugged that day

gibi

1. something like; anything similar to something previously mentioned

   Ev gibisi yok.

   There’s no place like home.

• Because this sense is always bound to something previously mentioned, it always takes the possessive suffix -i and is declined accordingly.

• “gibi”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu