kob

See also: köb, køb, kɔb, and ков

English

A Ugandan kob, Kobus kob subsp. thomasi.

Alternative forms

• koba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb

Noun

kob (plural kobs or kob)

1. An African antelope closely related to the lechwe and the waterbuck, Kobus kob.
2. Any of several large game fish of the family Sciaenidae, especially the kabeljou (dusky kob or great kob), or perhaps the smaller squaretail kob.

Translations

Kobus kob

• Bulgarian: блатен козел m (blaten kozel)
• Catalan: cob m
• Finnish: kobiantilooppi, kobi (fi)
• Italian: cobo (it) m, kob (it) m
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• Romanian: kob (ro) m
• Russian: коб (ru) m (kob), боло́тный козёл m (bolótnyj kozjól)
• Wolof: mbill

Derived terms

• dusky kob

Anagrams

• Bok, KBO, OKB, bok

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Albanian

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Slavic *kobь through a South Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian kob (“fate, destiny, omen”) and Bulgarian коба (koba).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔb/

Noun

kob m (plural kobe, definite kobi, definite plural kobet)

1. misfortune, scourge
2. death
3. deception, treachery

Synonyms

• bolbë

Derived terms

• kobshëm
• kobzi

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kobь, from Proto-Indo-European *kob-.

Compare (obsolete) Russian кобь (kobʹ), Old Norse happ (“good luck”), Old Irish cob (“victory”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kôːb/

Noun

kȏb f (Cyrillic spelling ко̑б)

1. fate
2. destiny
3. omen

Declension

Declension of kob

	singular	plural
nominative	kȏb	kȏbi
genitive	kobi	kóbī
dative	kobi	kobima
accusative	kob	kobi
vocative	kobi	kobi
locative	kobi	kobima
instrumental	kȏblju	kobima

References

• “kob”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024