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You can make 7 words from sob according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of sob

sob osb sbo bso obs bos

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Definitions and meaning of sob

sob

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒb/
• (General American) enPR: säb, IPA^(key): /sɑb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

From Middle English sobben, perhaps from Middle Low German sabben (“to drool, slobber, salivate”). Cognate with West Frisian sabje, sobje (“to suck”), Dutch zabben, sabbelen (“to suck”), zabberen (“to drool”), German Low German sabbeln, severn (“to drool”), German sabbern (“to drool, slobber”), Norwegian sabbe (“to spill, drop, make a mess”). Compare also Old English sēofian (“to lament”), German saufen (“to drink, swig”).

Noun

sob (plural sobs)

1. A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
2. (onomatopoeia) sound of sob

Derived terms

• sobby
• sob sister
• sob story
• sob stuff

Translations

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. (intransitive) To weep with convulsive gasps.
2. (transitive) To say (something) while sobbing.

   "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weep

Translations

Etymology 2

See sop.

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. To soak.

Anagrams

• BOS, BSO, Bos., OBs, OSB, Obs, bos, obs

Czech

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsop]

Noun

sob m anim (related adjective sobí)

1. reindeer, caribou (deer of the genus Rangifer)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sob]
• Hyphenation: sob

Adverb

sob

1. (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)

Synonyms

• malsupren (“down, downwards”)

Antonyms

• supren (“up, upwards”)
• (neologism, nonstandard) sor (“up, upwards”)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, below”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sob

Preposition

sob

1. under

   Antonym: sobre

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech sob.

Noun

sȍb m (Cyrillic spelling со̏б)

1. reindeer

   Synonym: irvas

Declension

Further reading

• “sob” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɔp]

Noun

sob m

1. reindeer, caribou (deer of the genus Rangifer)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “sob”, 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

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔʔm̥/

Noun

sob

1. early morning

Adjective

sob

1. of early morning

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Volapük

Noun

sob (nominative plural sobs)

1. soap

Declension