इब

Old Hindi

Etymology

Perhaps (i, this) + अब (aba, marker of time in adverbs).[1]

Adverb

इब (iba)[2]

  1. now, at this time
    • c. 1450 – 1520, Ravidas
      भणैं रैदास उदास ताही थैं, इब कछू मोपैं करी न जाई।
      आपौ खोयां भगति होत है, तब रहै अंतरि उरझाई॥
      bhaṇaiṃ raidāsa udāsa tāhī thaiṃ, iba kachū mopaiṃ karī na jāī.
      āpau khoyāṃ bhagati hota hai, taba rahai aṃtari urajhāī.

References

  1. Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 281
  2. Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), इब”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
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