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bibis

bibis is the plural of bibi.

Meaning of bibi

Noun

bibi (plural bibis)

  1. (India) A grandmother.
  2. (India, obsolete) A European woman in British India; sometimes a married man's mistress.
    • The bibis of European men were treated in the same way as upper-class Muslim women, that is, they were kept hidden from view and did not mingle socially with men.2010, Stephen Markel, Tushara Bindu Gude, India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, page 59

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Proper noun capitalized: Bibis

Bibis

  1. (plural) plural of Bibi

Questions about bibis

What is bibis the plural of?
Bibis is the plural of bibi.
What part of speech is bibis?
Bibis is a proper noun.

Words near bibis in the dictionary

  1. bibionids
  2. bibiri
  3. bibirine
  4. bibiru
  5. bibirus
  6. bibis
  7. Bibisi
  8. Bibisis
  9. Bibisitter
  10. Bibisitters
  11. Bibisitting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bibis (page history and authors); Bibis (page history and authors); bibi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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