pöbel
Swedish
editEtymology
editFrom German Pöbel, from Old French pueple, from Latin populus. Attested since 1734. Cognate of Danish pøbel, French peuple.
Noun
editpöbel c
- (derogatory) plebs, riffraff, mob, rabble ((despised, unsophisticated) common people)
- pöbeln
- the plebs
- mob, rabble (disorderly, often angry crowd (made up of common people), in a not necessarily derogatory sense)
- En arg pöbel hade samlats utanför mitt hus
- An angry mob had gathered outside my house
Usage notes
editOften a bit ironic in (sense 1), whether genuinely meant to be derogatory or not, similar to "plebs."
Declension
edit| Declension of pöbel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | pöbel | pöbeln | — | — |
| Genitive | pöbels | pöbelns | — | — |
See also
editReferences
edit- pöbel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- pöbel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- pöbel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- pöbel in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)