different between obea vs oba

English

Noun

obea

1. Alternative form of obeah

Anagrams

• boae, boæ

Taikat

Noun

obea

1. water

Further reading

• C. L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 112

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