oba

See also: -oba and Oba.

English

Alternative forms

• ọba

Etymology

From Yoruba [Term?].

Noun

oba (plural obas)

1. (historical) A king in Benin.
2. A local chief in some parts of Nigeria.

Derived terms

• iyoba

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• ABO, AOB, Abo, BAO, Bao, OAB, a.o.b., abo, bao, boa

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oba/

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Pronoun

oba m, obě f, n

1. both

Declension

	Masc.	Feminine & neut.
nominative	oba	obě
genitive	obou	obou
dative	oběma	oběma
accusative	oba	obě
locative	obou	obou
instrumental	oběma	oběma

Further reading

• oba in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• oba in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Guhu-Samane

Noun

oba

1. water

References

• Ritva Hemmilä, Orthography and Phonology Database: Islands and Momase Regions (Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1998), page 42, Guhu-Samane

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Irish

Noun

oba

1. Alternative form of hob

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oba	n-oba	hoba	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• "oba" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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Japanese

Romanization

oba

1. Rōmaji transcription of おば

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Old High German

Etymology 1

Akin to ūf

Preposition

oba

1. above

Etymology 2

Proto-Germanic *jabai

Conjunction

oba

1. Alternative form of ibu

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Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ba/

• Audio

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Numeral

oba

1. both

Declension

Case	Plural only
	m pers	m npers & n	f
nominative, vocative	obaj	oba	obie
genitive	obu
dative
accusative	obu	oba	obie
instrumental	oboma		obiema
locative	obu

See also

• oboje (collective)

Further reading

• oba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Interjection

oba

1. (usually childish) whee; yay (expression of pleasure or enjoyment)

   Synonyms: iúpi, eba

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ôba/
• Hyphenation: o‧ba

Noun

ȍba m, n (Cyrillic spelling о̏ба)

1. both (for masculine and neuter pairs)

Declension

declension of oba

	m & n	f *
nominative	ȍba	ȍbje, ȍbe
genitive	obàjū	obìjū
dative	obàma	objèma, obèma
accusative	ȍba	ȍbje, ȍbe
vocative	ȍba	ȍbje, ȍbe
locative	obàma	objèma, obèma
instrumental	obàma	objèma, obèma
* Feminine forms listed in Ijekavian and Ekavian pairs.

Related terms

• ȍbje/ȍbe (for feminine pairs)

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Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ōpa (“village, clan”), which, according to the controversial Altaic hypothesis, is possibly derived from Proto-Altaic *ṓp`V (“clan, family”). Cognate with Turkmen ōba.

Noun

oba (definite accusative obayı, plural obalar)

1. clan, tribe, village

References

• oba, Nisanyan, Turkish Etymological Dictionary
• *ōpa, *ṓp`V in Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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Volapük

Pronoun

oba

1. (possessive) (genitive singular of ob) my, of mine

   Synonym: obik