kob

See also: köb, køb, kɔb, and ков

English

A Ugandan kob (Kobus kob subsp. thomasi)

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɒb/
  • Rhymes: -ɒb

Noun

kob (plural kobs or kob)

  1. An African antelope closely related to the lechwe and the waterbuck, Kobus kob.
  2. Any of several large game fish of the family Sciaenidae, especially the kabeljou (dusky kob or great kob or perhaps the smaller squaretail kob.

Translations

References

antelope
fish

Anagrams


Albanian

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Slavic *kobь through a South Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian kob (fate, destiny, omen) and Bulgarian коба (koba).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔb/

Noun

kob m (indefinite plural kobe, definite singular kobi, definite plural kobet)

  1. misfortune, scourge
  2. death
  3. deception, treachery

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • kobshëm
  • kobzi

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), kob”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 187

Old Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German kobe, from Proto-Germanic *kubô.

Noun

kob m

  1. pigpen
    Synonyms: chlew, pielasz, świniec

Descendants

  • ? Polish: kobieta

Further reading


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kobь, from Proto-Indo-European *kob-.

Compare (obsolete) Russian кобь (kobʹ), Old Norse happ (good luck), Old Irish cob (victory).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kôːb/

Noun

kȏb f (Cyrillic spelling ко̑б)

  1. fate
  2. destiny
  3. omen

Declension

References

  • kob” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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