different between obe vs oboe

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

obe (plural obes)

1. (historical) A particular subdivision of ancient Laconia.

Etymology 2

Noun

obe (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of obeah.

Anagrams

• BEO, BOE, BoE, Boe, EOB, OEB

Champenois

Noun

obe

1. (Auve) tree

References

• Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne?^[2] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 110

Nzadi

Adjective

obé (plural obé)

1. bad

   Antonym: odz??

Further reading

• Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, ?ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): ?bje

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ôbe/
• Hyphenation: o?be

Noun

?be f (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. both (for feminine pairs)

Related terms

• ?ba (for masculine and neuter pairs)

Volapük

Pronoun

obe

1. (dative singular of ob) to me

English

Etymology

An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?bo?/
• Rhymes: -??b??

Noun

oboe (plural oboes)

1. A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• cor anglais
• hautboy

Anagrams

• Booe, OEOB, OOBE

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?oboe/, [?o?bo?e?]
• Rhymes: -oboe
• Syllabification: o?bo?e

Noun

oboe

1. (music) oboe

Declension

Italian

Alternative forms

• oboè (obsolete)

Etymology

From French hautbois, transcribed phonetically.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.bo.e/
• Hyphenation: ò?boe

Noun

oboe m (plural oboi)

1. (music) oboe
2. (metonymically) oboist

References

• oboe in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Spanish

Etymology

From French hautbois.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?boe/, [o???o.e]
• Rhymes: -oe
• Hyphenation: o?bo?e

Noun

oboe m (plural oboes)

1. (music) oboe

References

Swedish

Noun

oboe c

1. (music) an oboe

Declension

Related terms

• oboist