different between sab vs sob

English

Etymology

Short for sabotage.

Verb

sab (third-person singular simple present sabs, present participle sabbing, simple past and past participle sabbed)

1. (informal) To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports.

Noun

sab (plural sabs)

1. (informal) A saboteur, especially of fox hunts.

Anagrams

• ABS, ABs, Abs, B. A. S., B.A.S., B.A.s, BAS, BAs, BSA, SBA, abs, abs-, abs., bas

Catalan

Verb

sab

1. Obsolete form of sap.

Cornish

Noun

sab f (singulative saben)

1. pines

Synonyms

• pin

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French sable (“sand”)

Noun

sab

1. sand

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (?a??ba). Compare Moroccan Arabic ???? (??b).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?p/

Verb

sab (imperfect jsib, past participle misjub)

1. to find
   1. to find (something) useful
2. to catch
3. to look for
4. to find out, to realise

Conjugation

Scots

Noun

sab (plural sabs)

1. sob

Verb

sab

1. sob

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?b/
• (General American) enPR: säb, IPA^(key): /s?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

Perhaps of Dutch or Low German origin; compare with Dutch dialect sabben 'to suck'.

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Noun

sob (plural sobs)

1. A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
2. (onomatopoeia) sound of sob
   • 1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads:

     “My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
     A short time since (sob) to this grave (sob) was borne;
     And (sob) he lies buried in this (sob, sob) grave.”

Derived terms

• sobby
• sob story
• sob stuff

Translations

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. (intransitive) to weep with convulsive gasps.

   • She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and, furious with despair, / She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.

2. (transitive) to say (something) while sobbing.

   "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weep

Translations

Etymology 2

See sop.

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. To soak.

Anagrams

• BOS, BSO, Bos., OBs, OSB, Obs, bos, obs

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sop/

Noun

sob m

1. reindeer (an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)

Declension

Further reading

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

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sob/
• Hyphenation: sob

Adverb

sob

1. (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)

Synonyms

• malsupren (“down, downwards”)

Antonyms

• supren (“up, upwards”)
• (neologism, nonstandard) sor (“up, upwards”)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, below”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sob/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?so.bi/, /sob/
• Hyphenation: sob

Preposition

sob

1. under

Antonyms

• sobre

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sob m (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. reindeer

See also

• irvas/?????

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??m?/

Noun

sob

1. early morning

Adjective

sob

1. of early morning

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Volapük

Noun

sob (nominative plural sobs)

1. soap

Declension