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oba

oba

See also: -oba and Oba.

English

Alternative forms

  • ọba

Noun

oba (plural obas)

  1. Former title of a king in Benin
  2. Now the title of a local chief in some parts of Nigeria

Derived terms

References

  • OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams


Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oba/

Pronoun

oba

  1. both

Guhu-Samane

Noun

oba

  1. water

References

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

Japanese

Romanization

oba

  1. rōmaji reading of おば

Old High German

Etymology

Akin to ūf

Preposition

oba

  1. above

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɔba]

Numeral

oba

  1. both

Declension

Case Plural only
m pers m npers & n f
nominative, vocative obaj oba obie
genitive obu
dative
accusative obu oba obie
instrumental oboma obiema
locative obu

See also


Portuguese

Interjection

oba

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

Synonyms


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oba

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ȍba m, n (Cyrillic spelling о̏ба)

  1. both (for masculine and neuter pairs)

Declension

Related terms


Volapük

Pronoun

oba

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

Synonyms