different between sob vs moan
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)
- A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
- (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.”
- “My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
- 1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads:
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)
- (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.
- (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)
- To soak.
Anagrams
- BOS, BSO, Bos., OBs, OSB, Obs, bos, obs
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sop/
Noun
sob m
- 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
- (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
- under
Antonyms
- sobre
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
sob m (Cyrillic spelling ???)
- reindeer
See also
- irvas/?????
Tzotzil
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??m?/
Noun
sob
- early morning
Adjective
sob
- 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)
- soap
Declension
sob From the web:
- what sobers you up
- what sober couldn't say
- what song is this
- what sober means
- what sober couldn't say lyrics
- what sob means
- what sobriety means
- what sob stand for
moan
English
Etymology
From Middle English mone, mane, m?n, (also as mene), from Old English *m?n, *m?n (“complaint; lamentation”), from Proto-Germanic *main? (“opinion; mind”). Cognate with Old Frisian m?ne (“opinion”), Old High German meina (“opinion”). Old English *m?n, *m?n is inferred from Old English m?nan (“to complain over; grieve; mourn”). More at mean.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /m??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /mo?n/
- Rhymes: -??n
- Homophone: mown
Noun
moan (plural moans)
- a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
Translations
Verb
moan (third-person singular simple present moans, present participle moaning, simple past and past participle moaned)
- (transitive, now rare) To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. [from 13th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
- 1708, Matthew Prior, the Turtle and the Sparrow
- Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- (intransitive, now chiefly poetic) To grieve. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden. [15th-17th c.]
- which infinitely moans me
- (intransitive) To make a moan or similar sound. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice. [from 19th c.]
- ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To complain; to grumble. [from 20th c.]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:complain
Derived terms
- moaner
- moany
Related terms
- bemoan
Translations
See also
- murmur
- protest
- lament
Further reading
- moan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- moan in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Amon, Mano, Mona, NOMA, Noam, Oman, Onam, mano, maon, mona, noma
Breton
Alternative forms
- moen
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *mu?n (“beautiful”) (compare Welsh mwyn (“mild, gentle”)), from Proto-Celtic *moinis (“treasure, precious object”) (compare Irish maoin (“property, riches”)), from Proto-Indo-European *moynis (compare Latin m?nis (“obliging”), Old English m?ne (“common”)), from *mey- (“to change”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mwã?n/
Adjective
moan
- thin, slender
- Synonym: tanav
- Antonym: tev
Mutation
Finnish
Noun
moan
- Genitive singular form of moa.
Anagrams
- Oman, oman
moan From the web:
- what moana character are you
- what moaning means
- what moana means
- what moana got wrong
- what moana looks like
- what moana
- what moana character are you buzzfeed
- what moana says to maui
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