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English

Alternative forms

• ?ba

Etymology

From Yoruba ?ba.

Noun

oba (plural obas)

1. A king of a Yoruba polity.

Derived terms

• iyoba

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “oba”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• A/B/O, ABO, AOB, Abo, BAO, Bao, OAB, a.o.b., abo, bao, boa

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oba/

Pronoun

oba m, ob? f or n

1. both

Declension

Further reading

• oba in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• oba in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Guhu-Samane

Noun

oba

1. water

References

• Ritva Hemmilä, Orthography and Phonology Database: Islands and Momase Regions (Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1998), page 42, Guhu-Samane

Irish

Noun

oba

1. Alternative form of hob

Mutation

Further reading

• "oba" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Japanese

Romanization

oba

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Old High German

Etymology 1

Akin to ?f

Preposition

oba

1. above

Adverb

oba

1. above

Etymology 2

Proto-Germanic *jabai

Conjunction

oba

1. Alternative form of ibu

References

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oba.

Alternative forms

• obydwa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ba/

Numeral

oba

1. both

Declension

See also

• oboje (collective)

Further reading

• oba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Interjection

oba

1. (usually childish) whee; yay (expression of pleasure or enjoyment)

   Synonyms: iúpi, eba

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ôba/
• Hyphenation: o?ba

Noun

?ba m or n (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. both (for masculine and neuter pairs)

Declension

Related terms

• ?bje/?be (for feminine pairs)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (“large tent; nomad family”), from Proto-Turkic *?pa (“village, clan”). Cognate with Turkmen ?ba.

Noun

oba (definite accusative obay?, plural obalar)

1. clan, tribe, village

References

• oba, Nisanyan, Turkish Etymological Dictionary
• *?pa, *?p`V in Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Volapük

Pronoun

oba

1. (possessive) (genitive singular of ob) my, of mine

   Synonym: obik

English

Noun

oby (plural obies)

1. Archaic form of obeah.

Anagrams

• BYO, Y. O. B., Y.O.B., YOB, YoB, boy, byo, yob

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??????/, /t?????/, /s?????/

Adjective

oby

1. green, blue

Usage notes

• The stem oby could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. In predicative position, the form toby was used for animate subjects, and soby for inanimate subjects. When modifying nouns, the noun itself would be agglutinated with the adjective (as nouns always precede adjectives in Tupi).

References

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.b?/

Particle

oby

1. hopefully, if only, let, may

   Synonyms: bodaj, niech, niechaj

Further reading

• oby in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• oby in Polish dictionaries at PWN