sob
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɒb/
- (General American) enPR: säb, IPA(key): /sɑb/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒb
Etymology 1
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
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
sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)
- (intransitive) To weep with convulsive gasps.
- She was sobbing because she was feeling very miserable.
- 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
- See also Thesaurus:weep
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Etymology 2
See sop.
Verb
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. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
- the Tree, being sobbed and wet, ſwells the Wood
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Czech
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
sob m anim (related adjective sobí)
Declension
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Further reading
- “sob”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “sob”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “sob”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Adverb
sob
- (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)
Synonyms
- malsupren (“down, downwards”)
Antonyms
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, below”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sob
Preposition
sob
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Noun
sȍb m (Cyrillic spelling со̏б)
Declension
Further reading
- “sob” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
sob m anim (related adjective sobí)
Declension
Further reading
- “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
Pronunciation
Noun
sob
Adjective
sob
- of early morning
References
- Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Volapük
Noun
sob (nominative plural sobs)
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