different between obeah vs obe

English

Alternative forms

• obe, obea, obi, obia, oby

Etymology

Origin uncertain; apparently from a Caribbean creole, probably ultimately from a West African language. The Oxford English Dictionary points to Igbo abià (“knowledge, wisdom”), obìa (“doctor, healer”).

Pronunciation

• (Caribbean) IPA^(key): /?obia/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???b??/
• Hyphenation: o?be?ah

Noun

obeah (countable and uncountable, plural obeahs)

1. A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean.
2. A magician or witch doctor of the magic craft.
3. A spell performed in the practice of the magic craft; an item associated with such a spell.

Verb

obeah (third-person singular simple present obeahs, present participle obeahing, simple past and past participle obeahed)

1. (transitive) To bewitch using this kind of folk magic.
   • 1906 December – 1907 May, Isabella S. Abel, “The Obeah-man”, in The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, volume XXV, London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C., published 1907, OCLC 224679211, page 392:

     A poor old woman who thinks she has been Obeahed lies ill in an isolated hut on the short cut to New Castle. I discovered her while out shooting, and promised to send her medical aid. Her case is pressing.

References

Anagrams

• bohea

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