sob

See also: SOB

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɒb/
• enPR: säb, IPA^(key): /sɑb/

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• Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

a cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath

• Dutch: snik (nl) c
• Faroese: higst n
• Finnish: nyyhkäys, nyyhkytys (fi)
• French: sanglot (fr) m
• Friulian: sangloç m
• German: Schluchzen n, Schluchzer (de) m
• Hungarian: zokogás (hu)
• Icelandic: snökkt n, ekki (is) m, ekkasog n, andvarp (is) n
• Irish: cuach f
• Italian: singhiozzo (it)
• Japanese: すすり泣き (susurinaki)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھەنیسک (henîsk), بەرانیسک (beranîsk)

  Laki: ڤِرەنِسک (virenisk)

  Southern Kurdish: وەرەنیسک (werenîsk)

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• Latin: singultus m
• Latvian: elsas f pl, šņuksti m pl
• Polish: łkanie (pl) n, szlochanie (pl) n, szloch m
• Portuguese: soluço (pt) m
• Romanian: suspin (ro) n
• Romansch: singlut m, sanglut, singlot, sangluot, singluot
• Russian: всхли́пывание (ru) n (vsxlípyvanije), (loud) рыда́ние (ru) n (rydánije)
• Serbo-Croatian: jecanje (sh) n

  Cyrillic: је̏ца̄ј m

  Roman: jȅcāj (sh) m

• Sicilian: sugghiuzzu (scn) m, sugliuzzu (scn), sigghiuzzu (scn), sigliuzzu (scn)
• Spanish: sollozo (es) m
• Swedish: snyft (sv) n, snyftning (sv) c
• Venetian: sangiuto (vec) m, sangiut, sangioto, sangiot

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobb, present participle ing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. (intransitive) to weep with convulsive gasps.
   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     She sighed, she sobbed, 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

weep with convulsive gasps

• Catalan: sanglotar (ca)
• Dutch: snotteren (nl)
• Faroese: higsta
• Finnish: nyyhkyttää (fi)
• French: sangloter (fr)
• Friulian: sangloçâ
• German: schluchzen (de)
• Hungarian: zokog (hu)
• Icelandic: snökta, stynja, andvarpa, gráta (is), stynja upp
• Italian: singhiozzare (it)
• Japanese: 啜り泣く susurinaku
• Latvian: elsot
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• Maori: koto, kotokoto, horuhoru, horu, hotu, hotuhotu
• Occitan: saumucar, samucar
• Polish: łkać, szlochać (pl)
• Portuguese: soluçar (pt)
• Quechua: hik'ipakuy
• Romanian: hohoti (ro), boci (ro)
• Romansch: sanglutter, singlouotar
• Russian: всхли́пывать (ru) impf (vsxlípyvatʹ), всхли́пнуть (ru) pf (vsxlípnutʹ), (loud) рыда́ть (ru) impf (rydátʹ)
• Spanish: sollozar (es)
• Venetian: sangiutar, sangiotar
• Vietnamese: khóc thổn thức, thổn thức (vi), khóc hu hu
• Westrobothnian:

say (something) while sobbing

• Dutch: snikken (nl)
• Finnish: nyyhkyttää (fi)
• French: dire en sanglotant
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: schluchzen (de)
• Icelandic: stynja upp, segja frá með ekka
• Latvian: šņukstēt

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} jecati (sh)
• German: ^{(please verify)} schluchzen (de)

Etymology 2

See sop.

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobb, present participle ing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. To soak.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)

Anagrams

• BOS, BSO, Bos., OSB, Obs, bos, obs

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Czech

sob

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔp/

Noun

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

Declension

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sob]
• Hyphenation: sob

Adverb

sob

1. (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)
   • 1993, Jorge Camacho, La Majstro kaj Martinelli‎^[1], Iltis Saarbrücken:

     Ni saltu sob antaŭ ol venos fruemaj promenantoj.

     Let's jump down before the early promenaders come.

Synonyms

• malsupren (“down, downwards”)

Antonyms

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsob/
• Hyphenation: sob

Preposition

sob

1. under

Antonyms

• sobre

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sob m (Cyrillic spelling соб)

1. reindeer

See also

• irvas/ирвас

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Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔʔm̥/

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.

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Volapük

Noun

sob (nominative plural sobs)

1. soap

Declension

declension of sob

	singular	plural
nominative	sob	sobs
genitive	soba	sobas
dative	sobe	sobes
accusative	sobi	sobis
vocative 1	o sob!	o sobs!
predicative 2	sobu	sobus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only