tobe

See also: Tobe, tobě, -to-be, and to-be

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təʊb/

Noun

tobe (plural tobes)

1. A cotton garment worn in parts of northern Africa.
   • 1889, Edinburgh Review, page 391:

     It consists, for men and women alike, of a ‘tobe,’ or straight piece of cotton cloth (printed, or white with a crimson border), two breadths wide, and some twelve feet long, draped in graceful folds about the body, and fastened on the left shoulder.

   • 2010, Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley, page 4:

     She loved travelling to Egypt, and how she didn’t have to wear a tobe in Cairo.

Anagrams

• Tebo, beot, boet, bote

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German

Pronunciation

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Verb

tobe

1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of toben.
2. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of toben.
3. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of toben.
4. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of toben.