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Definitions and meaning of dub

dub

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʌb/
  • Rhymes: -ʌb

Etymology 1

From a Late Old English (11th century) word dubban, dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword”) perhaps borrowed from Old French adober (“equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber, from Proto-Germanic *dubjaną (“to fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”).

Cognate with Icelandic dubba (dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.

Verb

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

  1. (transitive) (now historical or ceremonial) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
  2. (transitive) To name, to entitle, to call. [from the later 16th c]
  3. (transitive) To deem.
  4. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
  5. (heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
    1. To dress with an adze.
    2. To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
    3. To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
      • 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
        When the skin is thoroughly cleansed, and while yet in its wet and distended state, the process of stuffing, or dubbing (probably a corruption of daubing), is performed. Both sides of the skin, but chiefly the flesh side, are smeared or daubed with a mixture of cod-oil and tallow
    4. To dress a fishing fly.
  6. To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
Synonyms
  • (to confer knighthood): knight
  • (to name, to entitle, to call.): designate, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
  • (to deem): consider, think of; see also Thesaurus:deem
  • (to clothe or invest): deck out, embellish; see also Thesaurus:decorate
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

1505-1515 This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Verb

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

  1. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
  2. To do something badly.
  3. (golf) To execute a shot poorly.

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

  1. (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.
  2. (golf) A poorly executed shot.

Etymology 3

1885-90. Imitative; see also flub, flubdub.

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

  1. (slang, now historical) An unskillful, awkward person. [from the later part of the 19th c]

Etymology 4

From a shortening of the word double.

Verb

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

  1. To add sound to film or change audio on film. [from the first half of the 20th c]
  2. To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
  4. To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
  5. To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
Derived terms
  • overdub
Translations
See also
  • ADR
  • revoice

Noun

dub (countable and uncountable, plural dubs)

  1. (music, countable) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
  2. (music, uncountable) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
  3. (music, uncountable) A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
  4. (slang, countable) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
  5. (countable) The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 5

From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”).

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

  1. (UK, dialect) A pool or puddle.

Etymology 6

From shortening of double dime (“twenty”).

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

  1. (slang) A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
  2. (slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
Derived terms
  • dub sack

Etymology 7

From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).

Verb

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To open or close.
Derived terms
  • dub up

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A lock.
  2. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A key, especially a master key; a lock pick.
Derived terms

Etymology 8

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

  2. Clipping of double-u.
    1. (video games, Internet slang) A win.
Derived terms
  • Vee Dub

Etymology 9

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

  1. (India, historical) A small copper coin once used in India.
References
  • Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “dub”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

See also

Anagrams

  • BDU, BUD, Bud, DBU, bud

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech dub, from Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ (“oak tree, oak”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdup]
  • Hyphenation: dub
  • Rhymes: -up
  • Homophone: dup

Noun

dub m inan

  1. oak, oak tree

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • dub in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • dub in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • dub in Internetová jazyková příručka

Anagrams

  • bud

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dup/

Noun

dub m inan

  1. oak

Declension

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “dub”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “dub”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ (“oak tree, oak”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈdub/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈdup/

Noun

dub m inan

  1. oak, oak tree

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: dub

Further reading

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“black, deep”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duv/

Adjective

dub

  1. black
  2. morally dark, dire, gloomy, melancholy

Inflection

Descendants

  • Irish: dubh
  • Scottish Gaelic: dubh
  • Manx: doo

Noun

dub n (genitive dubo)

  1. black pigment, ink
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15a10
      ó dub glosses atramento
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 13d1
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 217a
  2. gall

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “dub”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Etymology

From Proto-Zapotec *tokwaʔ.

Noun

dub

  1. agave

References

  • López Antonio, Joaquín, Jones, Ted, Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía‎[3] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 14, 26

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰanw-.

Noun

dub m (Cyrillic spelling дуб)

  1. (Croatia, archaic) oak (wood)
  2. (Croatia, archaic) oak tree
    Synonym: hrast
    • c. 1840, Dragutin Rakovac (translating Samuel Tomášik), Hej, Slaveni:

Derived terms

  • Dubrovnik

Further reading

  • “dub” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • “dub” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • “dub” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dup]

Noun

dub m inan (genitive singular duba, nominative plural duby, genitive plural dubov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. oak, oak tree

Declension


Derived terms

Further reading

  • “dub”, 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, 2024

Spanish

Noun

dub m (plural dubs)

  1. (music) dub

Sumerian

Romanization

dub

  1. Romanization of 𒁾 (dub)

Volapük

Preposition

dub

  1. due to, because of

Derived terms

  • dubä

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong *qrɛŋᴬ (“black”), related to Proto-Mien *qri̯ɛkᴰ (“black”), though the details are unclear due to irregular rime and tone correspondences.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /du˥/

Adjective

dub

  1. black
  2. dark

References

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[4], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.

Zhuang

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /tup˧/
  • Tone numbers: dub8
  • Hyphenation: dub

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *dupᴬ (“to pound”); cognate with Thai ทุบ (túp), Lao ທຸບ (thup), Shan ထုပ်ႉ (thṵ̂p). Also compare Cantonese 𢱕 (dap6, “to pound; to strike”).

Verb

dub (Sawndip forms 𭡡 or 𰔥 or 𭡫, 1957–1982 spelling dub)

  1. to hit; to strike
    Synonym: moeb
  2. to strike with a hammer; to hammer
  3. to castrate (a male water buffalo)

Etymology 2

Verb

dub (1957–1982 spelling dub)

  1. to harrow (a paddy)

Source: wiktionary.org