tobe
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tobe"
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tobe (plural tobes)
- A cotton garment worn in parts of northern Africa.
- 1889, Edinburgh Review, page 391:
- It consists, for men and women alike, of a ‘tobe,’ or straight piece of cotton cloth (printed, or white with a crimson border), two breadths wide, and some twelve feet long, draped in graceful folds about the body, and fastened on the left shoulder.
- 2010, Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley, page 4:
- She loved travelling to Egypt, and how she didn’t have to wear a tobe in Cairo.
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Alemannic German edit
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- töbe (Bern)
Etymology edit
From Middle High German toben, from Old High German tobēn, tobōn from Proto-West Germanic *dobēn. Cognate with German toben, Middle Low German dōven.
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tobe (third-person singular simple present tobet, past participle tobet, auxiliary haa)
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic [Term?], probably onomatopoeic (compare dialectal Finnish topo). See also tobi, töbi, topakas.
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Adjective edit
tobe (genitive tobeda, partitive tobedat, comparative tobedam, superlative kõige tobedam or tobedaim)
- unintelligent, ignorant, foolish, stupid, dumb; simple-minded, inexperienced
- Kuidas nad võivad olla nii tobedad, et usuvad seda udujuttu?
- How can they be so ignorant as to believe that?
- Lammas pole üldsegi kõige tobedam loom.
- The sheep is not the dumbest animal.
- silly, dumb, unreasonable
- tobe küsimus ― a silly question
- Levib igasuguseid tobedaid kuulujutte.
- There are all sorts of silly rumours going around.
- Film tundus erakordselt tobe.
- The film seemed exceptionally dumb.
Declension edit
Declension of tobe (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | tobe | tobedad | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | tobeda | ||
genitive | tobedate | ||
partitive | tobedat | tobedaid | |
illative | tobedasse | tobedatesse tobedaisse | |
inessive | tobedas | tobedates tobedais | |
elative | tobedast | tobedatest tobedaist | |
allative | tobedale | tobedatele tobedaile | |
adessive | tobedal | tobedatel tobedail | |
ablative | tobedalt | tobedatelt tobedailt | |
translative | tobedaks | tobedateks tobedaiks | |
terminative | tobedani | tobedateni | |
essive | tobedana | tobedatena | |
abessive | tobedata | tobedateta | |
comitative | tobedaga | tobedatega |
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tobe
- inflection of toben: