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sob

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sobei terms

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

• Audio (US):

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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) The 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.”

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

sob

1. (Internet slang) An exclamation of usually mild displeasure.
   • 2026 August 30, @CicadaDust, X‎^[1] (post):

     Shinko Windy #174
     
     -IM NOT CRYING, ARE YOU CRYING? 🥹
     
     Sob, I feel bad this is so rushed, but I had to switch from what I was already drawing to this, this is more important.

   • 2026 September 4, @sleepyowlerin, X‎^[2] (post):

     not to dog on the movies more but it kinda kills me how violent the itp springlock failure sounds compared to the actual one in the first film sob

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

• sobby

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

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• IPA^(key): [ˈsop]

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sob m anim (relational 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), 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /sob/
• Rhymes: -ob
• Syllabification: sob

sob

1. (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)
   • 1993, Jorge Camacho, La Majstro kaj Martinelli‎^[3], 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”)

• “sob”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “sob”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

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

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Hyphenation: sob

sob

1. under

   Antonym: sobre

• “sob”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “sob”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Czech sob.

• IPA^(key): /sôb/

sȍb m anim (Cyrillic spelling со̏б)

1. reindeer

   Synonym: ȉrvās

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

• IPA^(key): /sɔp/, [ˈsɔp]
• Rhymes: -ɔp

sob m animal (relational 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, 2003–2026

• 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 (genitive soba, plural sobs)

1. soap