tobe

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

English

tobe (plural tobes)

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.

tobe (third-person singular simple present tobet, past participle tobet, auxiliary haa)

to rage, rave, rampage (of a child, a person)
Dr Goof isch nur am tobe.
The unruly child does nothing but rage.
to bluster, rampage (of a wind, the weather)
Dusse tobt dr Wind.
The wind blusters outside.

From Proto-Finnic [Term?], probably onomatopoeic (compare dialectal Finnish topo). See also tobi, töbi, topakas.

tobe (genitive tobeda, partitive tobedat, comparative tobedam, superlative kõige tobedam or tobedaim)

Inflection of tobe (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)

tobe

inflection of toben:
1. first-person singular present
2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
3. singular imperative

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