sob

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒb/
• (General American) enPR: säb, IPA^(key): /sɑb/

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• Rhymes: -ɒb

From Middle English sobben, perhaps from Middle Low German sabben (“to drool, slobber, salivate”). Cognate with West Frisian sabje, sobje (“to suck”), Dutch zabben, sabbelen (“to suck”), zabberen (“to drool”), German Low German sabbeln, severn (“to drool”), German sabbern (“to drool, slobber”), Norwegian sabbe (“to spill, drop, make a mess”). Compare also Old English sēofian (“to lament”), German saufen (“to drink, swig”).

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, page 9:

     “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.”

• sobby
• sob sister
• sob story
• sob stuff

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. (intransitive) To weep with convulsive gasps.

   She was sobbing because she was feeling very miserable.

   • 1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 5”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     She sigh'd, she sobb'd, 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.

• See also Thesaurus:weep

See sop.

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. To soak.
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

     the Tree, being sobbed and wet, ſwells the Wood

• OSB, bos, SBO, BSO, obs., BOs, B.O.s, obs, Bos., Obs, BOS, OBs

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• IPA^(key): [ˈsop]

sob m anim (related adjective sobí)

1. reindeer, caribou (deer of the genus Rangifer)

• “sob”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sob”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sob”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

• IPA^(key): [sob]
• Hyphenation: sob

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.

• malsupren (“down, downwards”)

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

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

• Hyphenation: sob

sob

1. under

   Antonym: sobre

Borrowed from Czech sob.

sȍb m (Cyrillic spelling со̏б)

1. reindeer

   Synonym: irvas

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

• IPA^(key): [sɔp]

sob m pers (related adjective sobí)

1. reindeer, caribou (deer of the genus Rangifer)

• “sob”, 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, 2003–2024

• IPA^(key): /sɔʔm̥/

sob

1. early morning

sob

1. of early morning

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

sob (nominative plural sobs)

1. soap