sob
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.”
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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.
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- See also Thesaurus:weep
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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
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Noun edit
sob m anim (related adjective sobí)
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sob
- (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)
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- malsupren (“down, downwards”)
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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
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sob
Serbo-Croatian edit
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Noun edit
sȍb m (Cyrillic spelling со̏б)
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- “sob” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovak edit
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sob m
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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
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sob
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sob
- of early morning
References edit
- Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
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Noun edit
sob (nominative plural sobs)