different between cry vs soba

English

Etymology

From Middle English crien, from Old French crier (“to announce publicly, proclaim, scream, shout”) (whence Medieval Latin cr?d? (“to cry out, shout, publish, proclaim”)), from Frankish *kr?tan (“to cry, cry out, publish”), from Proto-Germanic *kr?tan? (“to cry out, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *greyd- (“to shout”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian kriete (“to cry”), Dutch krijten (“to cry”) and krijsen (“to shriek”), German Low German krieten (“to cry, call out, shriek”), German kreißen (“to cry loudly, wail, groan”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (kreitan, “to cry, scream, call out”), Latin gingr?tus (“the cackling of geese”), Middle Irish grith (“a cry”), Welsh gryd (“a scream”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a??/
• Homophone: krai
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

cry (third-person singular simple present cries, present participle crying, simple past and past participle cried)

1. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
2. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
4. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
5. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.

6. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, etc.
   • 1652, Richard Crashaw, The Beginning of Heliodorus

     Love is lost, and thus she cries him.

7. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
   • 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi

     I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• bawl
• blubber
• sob
• wail
• weep
• whimper
• See also Thesaurus:weep
• See also Thesaurus:shout

Antonyms

• laugh

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

cry (plural cries)

1. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.

   After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry.

2. A shout or scream.

   I heard a cry from afar.

3. Words shouted or screamed.

   a battle cry

4. A clamour or outcry.
5. (collectively) A group of hounds.
   • 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, in Edward Hawkins, The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Vol. I, W. Baxter, J. Parker, G. B. Whittaker (publs., 1824) pages 124 to 126, lines 648 to 659.

6. (by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
7. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.

   "Woof" is the cry of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry of a horse.
8. A desperate or urgent request.
9. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.

Derived terms

• battle cry
• hue and cry
• war cry

Translations

See also

• breastfeeding
• crocodile tears

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “cry”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• cry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• cry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Cyr, Cyr., RYC

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cri.

Noun

cry m (plural crys)

1. cry; shout

Descendants

• French: cri

Scots

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French crier.

Verb

cry (third-person singular present cries, present participle cryin, past cried, past participle cried)

1. to call, to give a name to
   • A body whit studies the history is cried a historian an aw.

English

Etymology 1

From Japanese ?? (soba).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s??b?, IPA^(key): /?s??b?/
• (General American) enPR: s??b?, IPA^(key): /?so?b?/
• (General New Zealand) enPR: s??b?, IPA^(key): /?s??b?/
• Homophone: sober (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

soba (countable and uncountable, plural sobas)

1. A Japanese buckwheat noodle.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

soba (plural sobas)

1. A traditional community leader in Angola.

Anagrams

• ASBO, Abos, Asbo, BAOs, Baos, SOAB, Sabo, abos, asbo, baos, baso-, boas, bosa, obas, sabo

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (soba), from Hungarian szoba, ultimately from Old High German stuba (“warmed room, oven”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [so?b?]
• Hyphenation: so?ba

Noun

soba (definite accusative soban?, plural sobalar)

1. stove

Declension

Chickasaw

Alternative forms

• issoba (long form)

Etymology

Short form of issoba.

Noun

soba (alienable)

1. horse

Inflection

Finnish

Noun

soba

1. soba

Declension

Anagrams

• bosa

Galician

Etymology

Back-formation from sobar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?so??]

Noun

soba f (plural sobas)

1. beating
   • 1810, José Fernández y Neira, Proezas de Galicia:

     pegaron me unha soba, que nin a que lle deron a Cristo

     they gave me a beating that not even what they gave Christ [was comparable]

   Synonyms: boura, malleira, tunda

Related terms

• sobar

References

• “soba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “soba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “soba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (??, soba, “buckwheat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.ba/
• Hyphenation: so?ba

Noun

soba (first-person possessive sobaku, second-person possessive sobamu, third-person possessive sobanya)

1. noodle.

Further reading

• “soba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Japanese

Noun

soba f (invariable)

1. soba

Japanese

Romanization

soba

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Karelian

Alternative forms

šoba

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sopa.

Noun

soba

1. dress

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sopa.

Noun

soba

1. dress

Oromo

Noun

soba

1. lie, falsehood

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian szoba, from Old High German stuba (whence also German Stube).

Noun

s?ba f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. room (a division of a building enclosed by walls, floor, and ceiling)

Declension

Derived terms

• s?bn?

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian szoba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s???ba/

Noun

sóba f

1. room (a division of a building enclosed by walls, floor, and ceiling)

Inflection

Spanish

Verb

soba

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of sobar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of sobar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of sobar.

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (soba), from Hungarian szoba, from Old High German stuba (“warmed room, oven”).

Noun

soba (definite accusative sobay?, plural sobalar)

1. stove

Declension

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sopa.

Noun

soba

1. garment, piece of clothing

Inflection

Derived terms

References

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