sob

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒb/
• (General American) enPR: säb, IPA^(key): /sɑb/

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• Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

From Middle English sobben, perhaps from Middle Low German sabben (“to drool, slobber, salivate”). Cognate with West Frisian sabje, sobje (“to suck”), Dutch zabben, sabbelen (“to suck”), zabberen (“to drool”), German Low German sabbeln, severn (“to drool”), German sabbern (“to drool, slobber”), Norwegian sabbe (“to spill, drop, make a mess”). Compare also Old English sēofian (“to lament”), German saufen (“to drink, swig”).

Noun

sob (plural sobs)

1. A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
2. (onomatopoeia) sound of sob
   • 1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads, page 9:

     “My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
     A short time since (sob) to this grave (sob) was borne;
     And (sob) he lies buried in this (sob, sob) grave.”

Derived terms

• sobby
• sob sister
• sob story
• sob stuff

Translations

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. (intransitive) To weep with convulsive gasps.
   • 1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 5”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:

     She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and, furious with despair, / She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.

2. (transitive) To say (something) while sobbing.

   "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weep

Translations

Etymology 2

See sop.

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. To soak.
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. , 2nd edition, London: J H for H Mortlock , and J Robinson , published 1708, →OCLC:

     the Tree, being sobbed and wet, ſwells the Wood

Anagrams

• BOS, BSO, Bos., OBs, OSB, Obs, bos, obs

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

sob

Wikipedia ^cs

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

sob m anim (related adjective sobí)

1. reindeer, caribou (deer of the genus Rangifer)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• sob in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• sob in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• sob in Internetová jazyková příručka

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: sob

Adverb

sob

1. (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)
   • 1993, Jorge Camacho, La Majstro kaj Martinelli‎, Iltis Saarbrücken:

     Ni saltu sob antaŭ ol venos fruemaj promenantoj.

     Let's jump down before the early promenaders come.

Synonyms

• malsupren (“down, downwards”)

Antonyms

• supren (“up, upwards”)
• (neologism, nonstandard) sor (“up, upwards”)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, below”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sob

Preposition

sob

1. under

   Antonym: sobre

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:

sob

Wikipedia ^sh

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech sob.

Noun

sȍb m (Cyrillic spelling со̏б)

1. reindeer

   Synonym: irvas

Declension

Further reading

• “sob” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:

sob

Wikipedia ^sk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

sob m

1. reindeer, caribou (deer of the genus Rangifer)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “sob”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔʔm̥/

Noun

sob

1. early morning

Adjective

sob

1. of early morning

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Volapük

Noun

sob (nominative plural sobs)

1. soap

Declension