oba

• ọba

From Yoruba ọba.

oba (plural obas)

1. A king of a Yoruba polity.

• iyoba

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “oba”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• Åbo, bao, AOB, boa, Abo, ABO, BAO, Boa, a.o.b., OAB, Bao, abo, A/B/O

oba

1. naked

Cognates are found only in Oghuz languages, such as Turkmen ōba (“village”), Turkish oba (“large nomad tent; clan, tribe, village”).^[1] Compare, however, ova (“plains”).

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oba (definite accusative obanı, plural obalar)

1. camp of nomads or herdsmen
2. a small village or settlement
3. (chiefly iran) yurt

Declension of oba
	singular	plural
nominative	oba	obalar
definite accusative	obanı	obaları
dative	obaya	obalara
locative	obada	obalarda
ablative	obadan	obalardan
definite genitive	obanın	obaların

Possessive forms of oba
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	obam	obalarım
sənin (“your”)	oban	obaların
onun (“his/her/its”)	obası	obaları
bizim (“our”)	obamız	obalarımız
sizin (“your”)	obanız	obalarınız
onların (“their”)	obası or obaları	obaları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	obamı	obalarımı
sənin (“your”)	obanı	obalarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	obasını	obalarını
bizim (“our”)	obamızı	obalarımızı
sizin (“your”)	obanızı	obalarınızı
onların (“their”)	obasını or obalarını	obalarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	obama	obalarıma
sənin (“your”)	obana	obalarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	obasına	obalarına
bizim (“our”)	obamıza	obalarımıza
sizin (“your”)	obanıza	obalarınıza
onların (“their”)	obasına or obalarına	obalarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	obamda	obalarımda
sənin (“your”)	obanda	obalarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	obasında	obalarında
bizim (“our”)	obamızda	obalarımızda
sizin (“your”)	obanızda	obalarınızda
onların (“their”)	obasında or obalarında	obalarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	obamdan	obalarımdan
sənin (“your”)	obandan	obalarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	obasından	obalarından
bizim (“our”)	obamızdan	obalarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	obanızdan	obalarınızdan
onların (“their”)	obasından or obalarından	obalarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	obamın	obalarımın
sənin (“your”)	obanın	obalarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	obasının	obalarının
bizim (“our”)	obamızın	obalarımızın
sizin (“your”)	obanızın	obalarınızın
onların (“their”)	obasının or obalarının	obalarının

• el-oba

• “oba” in Obastan.com.

Inherited from Old Czech oba, from Proto-Slavic *oba.

• IPA^(key): /oba/

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oba m (feminine/neuter obě)

1. both

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

oba

1. water

• Ritva Hemmilä, Orthography and Phonology Database: Islands and Momase Regions (Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1998), page 42, Guhu-Samane

oba

1. Alternative form of hob

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

oba

1. Rōmaji transcription of おば

oba

1. Latin spelling of ობა (oba)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oba.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈoba/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈoba/

oba

1. both

• Czech: oba

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “oba”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Akin to ūf

oba

1. above

oba

1. above

From Proto-Germanic *jabai.

oba

1. Alternative form of ibu

• Middle High German: obe, ob, op
  • German: ob
  • Yiddish: אויב (oyb)

• Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oba. First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /ɔba/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ɔba/

oba

1. both

• Polish: oba
• Silesian: ôba

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “oba”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Mańczak, Witold (2017) “oba”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “oba”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “oba”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.βa/
• Rhymes: -ɔβa
• Hyphenation: o‧ba

oba (possessable, IIe class pluriform, absolute soba, R1 roba, R2 soba)

1. leaf (green, flat organ of most vegetative plants)

• Nheengatu: awa

Inherited from Old Polish oba.

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• Rhymes: -ɔba
• Syllabification: o‧ba
• Homophone: -oba

oba (collective oboje)

1. both

   Synonym: obydwa

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), oba is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 35 times in scientific texts, 47 times in news, 26 times in essays, 48 times in fiction, and 14 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 170 times, making it the 338th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

• oba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• oba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “oba”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “OBA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2018 July 1
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “oba”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “oba”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “oba”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 433

• Hyphenation: o‧ba

oba

1. (usually childish) whee; yay (expression of pleasure or enjoyment)

   Synonyms: iúpi, eba

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oba.

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

ȍba (Cyrillic spelling о̏ба)

1. both (for masculine and neuter pairs)

   Synonym: ȍbadvā

• ȍbje/ȍbe (for feminine pairs)
• ȍboje (for mixed pairs)
• obòjica

• obidva

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔba]

oba m inan

1. both

• “oba”, 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

oba f

1. feminine singular of obo

From Ottoman Turkish اوبه (“large tent; nomad family”). Cognate with Azerbaijani oba, Turkmen ōba (“village”).

oba (definite accusative obayı, plural obalar)

1. clan, tribe, village

• oba, Nisanyan, Turkish Etymological Dictionary
• *ōpa, *ṓp`V in Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Cognate with Azerbaijani and Turkish oba.

• IPA^(key): /oːˈbɑ/ (nominative)
• IPA^(key): /oːˈbɑː/ (dative)
• Rhymes: -ɑ, -ɑː
• Hyphenation: o‧ba

obā (comparative obarak, superlative iň oba)

1. rural, agricultural

obā (definite accusative obany, plural obālar)

1. village

• “oba” in Webonary.org
• “oba” in Enedilim.com

oba

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

   Synonym: obik

   • 1940, “Pro yunanef Nedänik”, in Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, pages 30, 37:

     Ziom oba binom bumavan, bumom domis in zif.

     My uncle is an architect, he builds houses in the city.

   • 1931, Arie de Jong, Gramat Volapüka, § 256:

     Blibolös nog boso! jimatan oba okömof onu.

     Please stay for a moment, my wife is coming right away.