kob
English

A Ugandan kob (Kobus kob subsp. thomasi)
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɒb/
- Rhymes: -ɒb
Noun
- An African antelope closely related to the lechwe and the waterbuck, Kobus kob.
- 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
References
- antelope
kob on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Kobus kob on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Kobus kob on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- fish
Sciaenidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Sciaenidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Sciaenidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Albanian
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Slavic *kobь through a South Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian kob (“fate, destiny, omen”) and Bulgarian коба (koba).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔb/
Noun
Synonyms
Derived terms
- kobshëm
- kobzi
References
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kob”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 187
Old Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle High German kobe, from Proto-Germanic *kubô.
Descendants
- ⇒? Polish: kobieta
Further reading
Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/kob on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource pl
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (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/
Declension
References
- “kob” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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