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Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Dubli.

Symbol

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dub

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dubli.

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English dubben, from Old English dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword, dub”) from Old French adober (“to equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), both from Proto-West Germanic *dubbōn, from Proto-Germanic *dub- (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”).

Cognate with Icelandic dubba (in dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.

Verb

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dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

  1. (transitive, now historical or ceremonial) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword, the accolade.
    Synonym: knight
  2. (transitive, now informal) To name, to entitle, to call. [from the later 16th c.]
    Synonyms: designate, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
    • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:
      They tripped along the murky aisles with the rest of the company, visiting the familiar wonders of the cave—wonders dubbed with rather over-descriptive names, such as “The Drawing-Room,” “The Cathedral,” Aladdin’s Palace,” and so on.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
    • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist‎[1], volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 31 October 2020, page 70:
      Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
    • 2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 52:
      Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.
  3. (transitive) To deem.
    Synonyms: consider, think of; see also Thesaurus:deem
  4. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
    Synonyms: deck out, embellish; see also Thesaurus:decorate
  5. (heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
    1. To dress with an adze.
      to dub a stick of timber smooth
    2. To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
      • 1808, Annual Register:
        For dressing or dubbing cloths, either wet or dry, otherwise than by green cards and pickards
    3. To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
      • 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
        When the skin is thoroughly cleansed, and while yet in its wet and distended state, the process of stuffing, or dubbing (probably a corruption of daubing), is performed. Both sides of the skin, but chiefly the flesh side, are smeared or daubed with a mixture of cod-oil and tallow
    4. To dress a fishing fly.
      • 1689, James Chetham, The Anglers Vade Mecum:
        if you can dub a Fly of the exact colour of the Natural Fly, Fish at that instant take, it's sufficient
  6. To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
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Etymology 2

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1505-1515 This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Verb

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dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

  1. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
  2. To do something badly.
  3. (golf) To execute a shot poorly.

Noun

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dub (plural dubs)

  1. (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.
  2. (golf) A poorly executed shot.

Etymology 3

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1885-90. Imitative; see also flub, flubdub.

Noun

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dub (plural dubs)

  1. (slang, now historical) An unskillful, awkward person. [from the later part of the 19th c]
    • 1936, P. G. Wodehouse, There's Always Golf‎[2], London: The Strand Magazine:
      As I came over the hill, I saw Ernest Plinlimmon and his partner, in whom I recognized a prominent local dub, emerging from the rough on the right. Apparently, the latter had sliced from the tee, and Ernest had been helping him find his ball.
    • 1969, Robert L. Vann, The Competitor, volumes 2-3, page 135:
      The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!

Etymology 4

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From a shortening of the word double.

Verb

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dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

  1. To add sound to film or change audio on film. [from the first half of the 20th c]
  2. To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
  4. To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
  5. To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
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Noun

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dub (countable and uncountable, plural dubs)

  1. (music, countable) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
  2. (music, uncountable) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
  3. (music, uncountable) A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
    • 2019 January 18, Jamie Dickson, “Khruangbin: “We’re not intending to create war with our music… It’s the absence of that aggression that a lot of rock bands have””, in Music Radar:
      But I think my bass playing is definitely dub-influenced.
    • 2020 July 20, Arun Chakal, “The Worked-Up Sound of Drum & Bass in Russia and Eastern Europe”, in Bandcamp Daily:
      Dyl’s polyrhythmic grooves on The Subsurface Project fuse dub techno and drum & bass, mixing modular sounds with hints of warm, jittery jungle.
    • 2020 August 3, Kane, “The Extended Cut: Zero T - Former Self EP [The North Quarter]”, in Magnetic Magazine:
      It reminded me of that classic Full Cycle vibe of jazzy soulful sounds blending with dub bass and fx.
  4. (slang, countable) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
    • 2001, Nancy Macdonald, The Graffiti Subculture, page 84:
      […] we climbed up the scaffolding and did these gold little dubs and you couldn't see them.
    • 2011, Justin Rollins, The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Graffiti, page 34:
      The year 1998 was alive with graffiti and trains pulling up with dubs on their sides.
  5. (countable) The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
    Near-synonym: voice acting
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Etymology 5

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From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”).

Noun

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dub (plural dubs)

  1. (UK, dialect) A pool or puddle.

Etymology 6

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From shortening of double dime (“twenty”).

Noun

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dub (plural dubs)

  1. (slang) A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
  2. (slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
    • 2003 January 7, “In da Club” (track 5), in Get Rich or Die Tryin'‎[3], performed by 50 Cent:
      When I pull up out front, you see the Benz on dubs.
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Etymology 7

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From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).

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dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant, transitive) To open or close.
    • 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter LXXXIII, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman‎[4], page 402:
      "Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degan, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged."
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dub (plural dubs)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A lock.
  2. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A key, especially a master key; a lock pick.
    • 1789, George Parker, Life's Painter of Variegated Characters in Public and Private Life, page 162:
      […] going upon the dobbin, is a woman dressed like a servant maid, no hat nor cloak on, a bunch of young dubs by her side, which are a bunch of small keys […]
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Etymology 8

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dub (plural dubs)

  2. Clipping of double-u.
    • 1997, Nelson Howell, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Visual InterDev, Que Pub, →ISBN:
      World Wide Web or WWW
      Pronouncing this "dub dub dub" (with no rub-a) will definitely establish you as an insider.
    • 2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, Metropolitan Books, →ISBN, page 119:
      I once met a gaggle of Aussies who'd paid thousands of dollars out of their own pockets for airfare and registration to attend an annual Apple convention called the Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC—or, in this crowd, “Dub Dub.”
    1. (video games, Internet slang) A win.
      I haven't had a dub in a few games.
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Etymology 9

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Noun

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dub (plural dubs)

  1. (India, historical) A small copper coin once used in India.
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terms which are probably etymologically unrelated

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Etymology tree
Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ
Old Czech dub
Czech dub

    Inherited from Old Czech dub, from Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ (“oak tree, oak”).

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    dub m inan (relational adjective dubový)

    1. oak, oak tree
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    Declension of dub (hard masculine inanimate)
    singular plural
    nominative dub duby
    genitive dubu dubů
    dative dubu dubům
    accusative dub duby
    vocative dube duby
    locative dubě, dubu dubech
    instrumental dubem duby
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    Etymology 2

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    Abbreviation of duben.

    Noun

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    dub m inan

    1. abbreviation of duben or dubna (“April”)
      Coordinate terms: led, úno, bře, kvě, čvn, čvc, srp, zář, říj, lis, pro

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    Lower Sorbian

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈdup/
    • Rhymes: -up
    • Syllabification: dub

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    dub m inan

    1. oak

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    Declension of dub
    singular dual plural
    nominative dub duba duby
    genitive duba dubowu dubow
    dative duboju duboma dubam
    accusative dub duba duby
    instrumental dubom duboma dubami
    locative dubje duboma dubach

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    • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “dub”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
    • Starosta, Manfred (1999), “dub”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

    Maltese

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    Verb

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    dub

    1. second-person singular imperative of dab
    2. second-person singular imperative of dieb

    Old Czech

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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ (“oak tree, oak”).

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      dub m inan

      1. oak, oak tree

      Declension

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      Declension of dub (hard o-stem)
      singular dual plural
      nominative dub duby dubi, dubové
      genitive duba, dubu dubú dubóv
      dative dubu duboma dubóm
      accusative dub duby duby
      vocative dube duby dubi, dubové
      locative dubě, dubu dubú dubiech
      instrumental dubem duboma duby
      This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.

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      • Czech: dub

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      Old Irish

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      Etymology

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        From Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“black, deep”).

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        Adjective

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        dub

        1. black
        2. morally dark, dire, gloomy, melancholy

        Inflection

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        u-stem
        singular masculine feminine neuter
        nominative dub dub dub
        vocative dub
        accusative dub duib
        genitive duib dubae duib
        dative dub duib dub
        plural masculine feminine/neuter
        nominative dubai dubai
        vocative dubai
        accusative dubai
        genitive *
        dative dubaib

        *not attested in Old Irish; same as nominative singular masculine in Middle Irish

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        Noun

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        dub n (genitive dubo)

        1. black pigment, ink
          • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15a10
            ó dub glosses atramento
          • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 13d1
            in maith a n-dubso amne
            is this ink good thus?
          • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 217a
            Memmbrum naue, droch dub! Ó, ní epur na haill.
            New parchment, bad ink! Oh, I say nothing more.
        2. gall

        Inflection

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        Neuter u-stem
        singular dual plural
        nominative dubN — —
        vocative dubN — —
        accusative dubN — —
        genitive duboH, dubaH — —
        dative dubL — —
        Initial mutations of a following adjective:
        • H = triggers aspiration
        • L = triggers lenition
        • N = triggers nasalization

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        Mutation of dub
        radical lenition nasalization
        dub dub
        pronounced with /ð-/        		 ndub

        Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
        All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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        Palauan

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        Etymology

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        From Pre-Palauan *ðuba, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubah, from Proto-Austronesian *tubah.

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        dub

        1. dynamite, bomb
        2. derris (vine in Legume family whose roots are used as poison to catch fish)

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        • dub in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
        • dub in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
        • dub in Lewis S. Josephs; Edwin G. McManus; Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977), Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 83.

        San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

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        Etymology

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        From Proto-Zapotec *tokwaʔ.

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        dub

        1. agave

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        • López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012), Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía‎[5] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 14, 26

        Serbo-Croatian

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        Etymology

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        Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰanw-.

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        dȗb m inan (Cyrillic spelling ду̑б)

        1. oak (wood)
        2. oak tree
          Synonym: hrast
          • c. 1840, Dragutin Rakovac (translating Samuel Tomášik), Hej, Slaveni:
            Stijena puca, dub se lama, zemlja nek’ se trese!
            The rock cracks, the oak breaks, let the earth quake!

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        Declension of dub
        singular plural
        nominative dȗb dȕbovi
        genitive dȗba dubóvā
        dative dȗbu dubòvima
        accusative dȗb dȕbove
        vocative dȗbe dȕbovi
        locative dúbu dubòvima
        instrumental dȗbom dubòvima

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        • “dub”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
        • “dub”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
        • “dub”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

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        Etymology

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          Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ.

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          dub m inan (relational adjective dubový, diminutive dubček or dúbok)

          1. oak, oak tree

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          Declension of dub
          (pattern dub)
          singularplural
          nominativedubduby
          genitivedubadubov
          dativedubudubom
          accusativedubduby
          locativedubeduboch
          instrumentaldubomdubmi

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          • “dub”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

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          Noun

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          dub m (plural dubs)

          1. (music) dub

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          Romanization

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          dub

          1. romanization of 𒁾 (dub)

          Upper Sorbian

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          Pronunciation

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          • IPA(key): /ˈdup/
          • Rhymes: -up
          • Hyphenation: dub
          • Syllabification: dub

          Etymology 1

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          Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫ̑bъ. Cognate with Lower Sorbian dub.

          Noun

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          dub m inan (diminutive dubičk or dubik, augmentative dubisko)

          1. oak
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          Declension of dub (masculine hard stem)
          singular dual plural
          nominative dub dubaj duby
          genitive duba dubow dubow
          dative dubej dubomaj dubam
          accusative dub dubaj duby
          instrumental dubom dubomaj dubami
          locative dubje dubomaj dubach
          vocative dubo, dubje dubaj duby

          Etymology 2

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          See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

          Verb

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          dub

          1. second/third-person singular personal of dubić

          Further reading

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          • “dub”, in Mudra corpus [Upper Sorbian–Czech dictionary] (in Czech), 2024–2026
          • “dub” in Soblex

          Volapük

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          Preposition

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          dub

          1. due to, because of

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          White Hmong

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          Etymology

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          From Proto-Hmongic *qrɛŋᴬ (“black”), related to Proto-Mienic *qri̯ɛkᴰ (“black”), though the details are unclear due to irregular rime and tone correspondences.[1]

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          Adjective

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          dub

          1. black
          2. dark

          References

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          • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[6], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
          1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010), Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 243; 274.

          Zhuang

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          Etymology 1

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          From Proto-Tai *dupᴬ (“to pound”); cognate with Thai ทุบ (túp), Lao ທຸບ (thup), Shan ထုပ်ႉ (thṵ̂p). Also compare Cantonese 𢱕 (dap6, “to pound; to strike”).

          Verb

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          dub (Sawndip forms 𭡡 or 𰔥 or 𭡫, 1957–1982 spelling dub)

          1. to hit; to strike
            Synonym: moeb
          2. to strike with a hammer; to hammer
          3. to castrate (a male water buffalo)

          Etymology 2

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          Verb

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          dub (1957–1982 spelling dub)

          1. to harrow (a paddy)
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