sob

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Sobei.

Symbol

sob

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sobei.

See also

English

Pronunciation

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.”
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Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To weep with convulsive gasps.
    She was sobbing because she was feeling very miserable.
    • 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.
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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 Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. , London: J H for H Mortlock , and J Robinson , →OCLC:
      the Tree, being sobbed and wet, ſwells the Wood

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Czech

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sob

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

sob m anim (relational adjective sobí)

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

Declension

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adjectives

Further reading

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

sob

  1. (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)

Synonyms

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

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Etymology

Borrowed from Czech sob.

Pronunciation

Noun

sȍb m (Cyrillic spelling со̏б)

  1. reindeer
    Synonym: irvas

Declension

Declension of sob
singular plural
nominative sob sobovi
genitive soba sobova
dative sobu sobovima
accusative soba sobove
vocative sobe sobovi
locative sobu sobovima
instrumental sobom sobovima

Further reading

  • sob”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovak

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Pronunciation

Noun

sob m animal (relational adjective sobí)

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

Declension

Declension of sob
(patterns chlap (singular) and dub (plural))
singularplural
nominativesobsoby
genitivesobasobov
dativesobovisobom
accusativesobasoby
locativesobovisoboch
instrumentalsobomsobmi

Further reading

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

Noun

sob

  1. early morning

Adjective

sob

  1. of early morning

References

Volapük

Noun

sob (nominative plural sobs)

  1. soap

Declension

Declension of sob
singular plural
nominative sob sobs
genitive soba sobas
dative sobe sobes
accusative sobi sobis
vocative 1 o sob! o sobs!
predicative 2 sobu sobus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only