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From Middle English ebbe, from Old English ebba (“ebb, tide”), from Proto-West Germanic *abbjā, from Proto-Germanic *abjô, *abjǭ, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“off, away”), from Proto-Indo-European *apó. See also West Frisian ebbe, Dutch eb, German Ebbe, Danish ebbe, Old Norse efja (“countercurrent”), Old English af. More at of, off.

From Middle English ebben, from Old English ebbian, from Proto-West Germanic *abbjōn (“to ebb”).

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: отлив (otliv) — receding movement of the tide
• Catalan: reflux — receding movement of the tide
• Chinese Mandarin: 退潮 (tuìcháo) — receding movement of the tide
• Chinese Mandarin: 落潮 (luòcháo) — receding movement of the tide
• Czech: odliv — receding movement of the tide
• Danish: ebbe — receding movement of the tide
• Dutch: eb — receding movement of the tide
• Esperanto: forfluo — receding movement of the tide
• Finnish: luode — receding movement of the tide
• Finnish: laskuvesi — receding movement of the tide
• French: reflux — receding movement of the tide
• French: jusant — receding movement of the tide
• Galician: devalo — receding movement of the tide
• Galician: refluxo — receding movement of the tide
• Galician: vazante — receding movement of the tide
• Georgian: მიქცევა (mikceva) — receding movement of the tide
• Georgian: მიქცევის დინება (mikcevis dineba) — receding movement of the tide
• Georgian: ზღვის მიქცევა (zɣvis mikceva) — receding movement of the tide
• German: Ebbe — receding movement of the tide
• Hungarian: apály — receding movement of the tide
• Irish: aife — receding movement of the tide
• Irish: trá — receding movement of the tide
• Old Irish: aithbe — receding movement of the tide
• Italian: riflusso — receding movement of the tide
• Middle English: ebbe — receding movement of the tide
• Norwegian Bokmål: fjære — receding movement of the tide
• Norwegian Bokmål: fjøre — receding movement of the tide
• Norwegian Bokmål: ebbe — receding movement of the tide
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fjære — receding movement of the tide
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fjøre — receding movement of the tide
• Persian: جزر (jazr) — receding movement of the tide
• Polish: odpływ — receding movement of the tide
• Portuguese: vazante — receding movement of the tide
• Portuguese: refluxo — receding movement of the tide
• Romanian: reflux — receding movement of the tide
• Russian: отли́в (otlív) — receding movement of the tide
• Spanish: reflujo — receding movement of the tide
• Spanish: marea — receding movement of the tide
• Swedish: ebb — receding movement of the tide
• Ukrainian: відпли́в (vidplýv) — receding movement of the tide
• Unami: wënhikahële — receding movement of the tide
• Welsh: trai — receding movement of the tide
• Bulgarian: спадам (spadam) — to fall away or decline
• Catalan: baixar — to fall away or decline
• Catalan: retirar-se — to fall away or decline
• Catalan: refluir (la marea) — to fall away or decline
• Chinese Cantonese: 減退 /减退 (gaam2 teoi3) — to fall away or decline
• Dutch: wegebben — to fall away or decline
• French: refluer — to fall away or decline
• French: décliner — to fall away or decline
• Galician: vazar — to fall away or decline
• Galician: devalar — to fall away or decline
• Georgian: დაკნინება (daḳnineba) — to fall away or decline
• Georgian: დაქვეითება (dakveiteba) — to fall away or decline
• Georgian: რეგრესი (regresi) — to fall away or decline
• German: ebben — to fall away or decline
• German: abebben — to fall away or decline
• Greek: άμπωτη (ámpoti) — to fall away or decline
• Hungarian: apad — to fall away or decline
• Hungarian: hanyatlik — to fall away or decline
• Hungarian: fogy — to fall away or decline
• Hungarian: fogyatkozik — to fall away or decline
• Hungarian: gyengül — to fall away or decline
• Irish: tráigh — to fall away or decline
• Māori: heke — to fall away or decline
• Māori: tāwhati — to fall away or decline
• Māori: keketu — to fall away or decline
• Māori: timu — to fall away or decline
• Māori: tiremi — to fall away or decline
• Middle English: ebben — to fall away or decline
• Portuguese: vazar — to fall away or decline
• Portuguese: refluir — to fall away or decline
• Russian: ослабевать (oslabevatʹ) — to fall away or decline
• Swedish: ebba — to fall away or decline