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

References
  • OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /oba/
  • audio(file)

Pronoun

oba m, obě f or 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

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

Irish

Noun

oba

  1. Alternative form of hob

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith 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

Japanese

Romanization

oba

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おば

Old High German

Etymology 1

Akin to ūf

Preposition

oba

  1. above

Adverb

oba

  1. above

Etymology 2

Proto-Germanic *jabai

Conjunction

oba

  1. Alternative form of ibu

References
  1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oba.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.ba/
  • Audio(file)

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

Further reading
  • oba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Interjection

oba

  1. (usually childish) whee; yay (expression of pleasure or enjoyment)
    Synonyms: iúpi, eba

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oba

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

Noun

ȍba m or 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.

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ōpa (“village, clan”). Cognate with Turkmen ōba.

Noun

oba (definite accusative obayı, plural obalar)

  1. clan, tribe, village

References

Volapük

Pronoun

oba

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