seba

See also: Seba, séba, and seba'

English

Etymology

From Latin sēba, plural of sēbum.

Noun

seba

1. plural of sebum
   • 1958, Physiological Reviews, volume 38, page 491:

     It is of interest that horse sebum contains squalene, whereas the seba of ruminants, including sheep, goat, llama and dromedary, contain isocholesterol.

   • 1965, The Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation, pages 10, 1957, and 1961:

     The changes in the composition of the sterols (as well as the effects upon the composition of the aliphatic monohydric alcohols and fatty acids) were greatest in the seba of the two rats which also exhibited lowering of the corrected secretion rate (p. 101); the seba of the other two animals were almost identical with that of the control group. […] So far only the seba of man and sheep have been studied in detail; only preliminary data are available about the composition of the skin surface lipids of other mammals, including the common laboratory animals. […] Guinea pig, mouse and rabbit. All these seba are similar in lacking squalene, isocholesterol and triglycerides, exhibiting low values for free fatty acids and containing lathosterol (Wheatley, 1953, 1956; Wheatley & James, 1957).

   • 1975, W[illiam] J[ames] Cunliffe, J. A. Cotterill, The Acnes: Clinical Features, Pathogenesis, and Treatment, W. B. Saunders Company Ltd, →ISBN, page 31:

     They investigated the seba of two patients by gas liquid chromatography (this method being sensitive to less than 1 part per 10 million) 12 months after the onset of the lesions and at a time when the disease process was still active.

   • 1984, Eric S. Albone, Mammalian Semiochemistry: The Investigation of Chemical Signals Between Mammals, John Wiley & Sons Limited, →ISBN, pages 60–62:

     Although studies on non-human seba are not extensive, we do have evidence that major differences in sebum chemistry occur even between closely related species (Nicolaides et al., 1968, 1970). […] Although the seba of all species of mammals examined contain esters of some kind, these are generally not triglycerides, but other classes of ester which are less readily hydrolysed by microbial activity. Thus, the seba of rodents, the rabbit and sheep are low in triglyceride and also in free fatty acid, while neither of these compounds classes are observed by TLC in the hair lipids of the chimpanzee, baboon, hamster, guinea pig, cat, dog or cow (Nicolaides et al., 1968). […] These latter are present in the seba of all species studied, although in some cases such as the mouse, rabbit, goat and cattle, their levels are relatively low.

   • 1989, William James Cunliffe, “Biochemistry of the pilosebaceous unit”, in Ronald Marks, editor, Acne (Focal Points in Dermatology), Martin Dunitz, published 1993, →ISBN, section “Introduction to skin surface lipids”, page 163, column 1:

     More than half of human sebum is composed of triglycerides and free fatty acids, whereas the seba of sheep, rabbits and rodents contain less than 10 per cent free fatty acids and almost no triglycerides.

Anagrams

• Abes, BASE, Base, EABs, EBSA, baes, base

Dacian

Noun

seba

1. The edible elderberry plant.

Japanese

Romanization

seba

1. Rōmaji transcription of せば

Latin

Noun

sēba

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sēbum

References

• "seba", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦱꦺꦧ (séba, “to pay homage”)

Verb

seba

1. to face the king at the palace hall.

Derived terms

• berseba
• menyeba
• peseban

Further reading

• “seba” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Phuthi

Verb

-seba

1. to be rude

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sę.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈseba]

Pronoun

seba

1. oneself

   Vidím sa v zrkadle. ― I see myself in the mirror

   Koho vidíš v zrkadle? Seba. ― Whom do you see in the mirror? Myself.

Usage notes

• Replaces the accusative of any personal pronoun where the object, whether explicit or implied, is of the same person as the subject.

Declension

Declension of seba

	singulare tantum
nominative	—
genitive	seba
dative	sebe / si
accusative	seba / sa
locative	sebe
instrumental	sebou

Related terms

Slovak personal pronouns

		substantive		possessive
		singular	plural	singular	plural
1st person		ja	my	môj	náš
2nd person	familiar	ty	vy	tvoj	váš
	polite	vy		váš
3rd person	m	on	oni* / ony	jeho	ich
	f	ona		jej
	n	ono		jeho
reflexive		seba, sa (clitic)		svoj

* masculine animate only, ony otherwise

Further reading

• “seba”, 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, 2003–2025

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.ba/

Verb

seba

1. (stative) to be near

Conjugation

Conjugation of seba

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		toseba	foseba	miseba
2nd person		noseba	niseba
3rd person	masculine	oseba	iseba yoseba (archaic)
	feminine	moseba
	neuter	iseba

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sepä.

Noun

seba

1. collar

Inflection

Inflection of seba (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	seba
genitive sing.	seban
partitive sing.	sebad
partitive plur.	seboid
	singular	plural
nominative	seba	sebad
accusative	seban	sebad
genitive	seban	seboiden
partitive	sebad	seboid
essive-instructive	seban	seboin
translative	sebaks	seboikš
inessive	sebas	seboiš
elative	sebaspäi	seboišpäi
illative	sebaha	seboihe
adessive	sebal	seboil
ablative	sebalpäi	seboilpäi
allative	sebale	seboile
abessive	sebata	seboita
comitative	sebanke	seboidenke
prolative	sebadme	seboidme
approximative I	sebanno	seboidenno
approximative II	sebannoks	seboidennoks
egressive	sebannopäi	seboidennopäi
terminative I	sebahasai	seboihesai
terminative II	sebalesai	seboilesai
terminative III	sebassai	—
additive I	sebahapäi	seboihepäi
additive II	sebalepäi	seboilepäi

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “ворот”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

West Makian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪e.ba/

Verb

seba

1. (modal, auxiliary) to want to (do something)

   Synonym: tope

   de seba tefiam ― I want to eat

2. (modal, auxiliary) to intend to (do something)

   Synonym: tope

Usage notes

This term does not appear to be conjugated.

Etymology 2

From Ternate seba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪e.ba/

Verb

seba

1. (stative) to be nearby

Conjugation

Conjugation of seba (stative verb)

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tiseba	miseba	aseba
2nd person		niseba	fiseba
3rd person	inanimate	iseba	diseba
	animate	maseba
imperative		—, seba	—, seba

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics