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See also: köb, køb, kɔb, KOB, and ков

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A Ugandan kob (Kobus kob subsp. thomasi)

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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.

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antelope
fish

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Albanian

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Etymology

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

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

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

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

Old Polish

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

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

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kob m animacy unattested

  1. (attested in Greater Poland) pigpen
    Synonyms: chlew, pielasz, świniec
    • 1908 [c. 1500], Bolesław Erzepki, editor, Przyczynki do średniowiecznego słownictwa polskiego. I. Glosy polskie wpisane do łacińsko-niemieckiego słownika drukowanego w roku 1490[1], Lubiń, page 30:
      Ara oltharz vel kob, vel barlogo, vel swynye korytho
      [Ara ołtarz vel kob, vel barłogo, vel świnie koryto]

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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

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

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kȏb f (Cyrillic spelling ко̑б)

  1. fate
  2. destiny
  3. omen

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  • kob”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024