kob

See also: köb, køb, kɔb, KOB, and ков

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Kohoroxitari with b as a placeholder.

Symbol

kob

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Kohoroxitari.

English

A Ugandan kob (Kobus kob subsp. thomasi)

Alternative forms

• koba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

Probably from Kanuri kob (“antelope”) or another related Central Sudanic form.

Noun

kob (plural kobs or kob)

1. An African antelope closely related to the lechwe and the waterbuck, Kobus kob.

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans kob, from Dutch kobbe (“fish, goby, lumpfish”).

Noun

kob (plural kobs)

1. 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

Kobus kob

• Bulgarian: блатен козел m (blaten kozel)
• Catalan: cob m
• Czech: voduška kob
• Finnish: kobiantilooppi, kobi (fi)
• Hausa: maraya f
• Italian: cobo (it) m, kob (it) m
• Nandi: teperetio
• Polish: kob żółty m
• Romanian: kob (ro) m
• Russian: коб (ru) m (kob), боло́тный козёл m (bolótnyj kozjól)
• Wolof: mbill

References

antelope

• kob on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Kobus kob on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Kobus kob on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

fish

• Sciaenidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sciaenidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Sciaenidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Bok, KBO, OKB, bok

Albanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔb/

Noun

kob m (plural kobë, definite kobi, definite plural kobët)

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

Declension

Declension of kob

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kob	kobi	kobë	kobët
accusative		kobin
dative	kobi	kobit	kobëve	kobëve
ablative			kobësh

Synonyms

• bolbë

Derived terms

• kobshëm
• kobzi

Further reading

• “kob”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980

Old Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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^[2], Lubiń, page 30:

     Ara oltharz vel kob, vel barlogo, vel swynye korytho

     [Ara ołtarz vel kob, vel barłogo, vel świnie koryto]

Further reading

• Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/kob on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource ^pl
• Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “kob”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited 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

Declension of kob

	singular	plural
nominative	kȏb	kȏbi
genitive	kȏbi	kóbī
dative	kȏbi	kóbima
accusative	kȏb	kȏbi
vocative	kȏbi	kȏbi
locative	kóbi	kóbima
instrumental	kȏblju	kóbima

References

• “kob”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026