Sob
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɒb/
- (General American) enPR: säb, IPA(key): /sɑb/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒb
Etymology 1[edit]
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[edit]
sob (plural sobs)
- A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
- (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[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]
sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)
- (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.
- (transitive) To say (something) while sobbing.
- "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:weep
Translations[edit]
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Etymology 2[edit]
See sop.
Verb[edit]
sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)
- To soak.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:
- the Tree, being sobbed and wet, ſwells the Wood
Anagrams[edit]
Czech[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sob m anim (related adjective sobí)
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- sob in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- sob in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- sob in Internetová jazyková příručka
Esperanto[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
sob
- (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)
Synonyms[edit]
- malsupren (“down, downwards”)
Antonyms[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, below”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: sob
Preposition[edit]
sob
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
sȍb m (Cyrillic spelling со̏б)
Declension[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “sob” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovak[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sob m
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “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[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sob
Adjective[edit]
sob
- of early morning
References[edit]
- Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Volapük[edit]
Noun[edit]
sob (nominative plural sobs)