Dob - Wiktionary

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dob"

Translingual

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Symbol

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dob

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dobu.

See also

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• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dobu terms

English

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Pronunciation

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• (General American) IPA(key): /dɑb/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɒb/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

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Uncertain. Possibly from Middle English dobben.

Verb

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dob (third-person singular simple present dobs, present participle dobbing, simple past and past participle dobbed)

1. (slang, intransitive, chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To report a person to someone in authority for a wrongdoing. (For transitive forms see dob in, dob on.)
   • 1983, James Macpherson, The Feral Classroom, page 107:Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’.
   • 2006, Ian Findley, Shared Responsibility: Beating Bullying in Australian Schools, page 67:Alex was concerned that if others thought he had dobbed, things would get even worse for him. Dobbing was the worst thing a student could do.
2. (slang, chiefly Australia) To do one's share; to contribute. We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.
   • 1968, Louise Elizabeth Rorabacher, Aliens in Their Land: The Aborigine in the Australian Short Story, page 80:He′d never take payment in cash for tracking, but when they dobbed in for presentations such as the fridge he accepted them shyly, abashedly,[…].
   • 1976, Margaret Paice, Colour in the Creek, page 53:The miners had all dobbed in to buy a few bottles of beer which they left in the creek overnight to cool.
3. (slang, chiefly Australia) To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task. I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.
   • 1977, University of British Columbia, Canadian Literature, Issues 74-77, page 108, Writing reviews reminds me of the time I got dobbed in to be the judge at the Poochera sheep dog trials. It′s easy they said, sinking beers in the shade of the lean-to, just watch the dog.
   • 2001, Kerreen M. Reiger, Sheila Kitzinger, Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement, page 153:Those who moved into organisational roles sometimes did it unwittingly, even unwillingly, as they were ‘dobbed’ in for tasks, succeeded and so it went on.
4. (slang, Northern Ireland) To play truant
   • 2015 October 11, Kevin Mullan, “189 parents in dock for ‘dobbing’”, in Londonderry Sentinel‎[1]:Parents were taken to court 189 times in the Western region over the past five years because their children were ‘dobbing’ school.¶ The Education Minister John O’Dowd revealed the number of parents taken to court due to children being absent from school […]

Usage notes

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(all senses): Most often used with "in" or "on".

Synonyms

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• (report a person): See also Thesaurus:rat out
• (play truant): See also Thesaurus:play truant

Derived terms

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• dob in
• dobber

Etymology 2

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Probably variation of dab.

Noun

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dob (plural dobs)

1. A small amount of something, especially paste. Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.
   • 1903, Rudyard Kipling, The Tabu Tale, in Just So Stories (in the U.S. Scribner edition, but omitted from most British editions), ‘Consequence will be, O Tegumai,’ said the Head Chief, ‘that we will make them understand it with sticks and stinging-nettles and dobs of mud; and if that doesn't teach them, we'll draw fine, freehand Tribal patterns on their backs with the cutty edges of mussel-shells. […] ’

Quotations

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• For quotations using this term, see Citations:dob.

Related terms

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• dab

Etymology 3

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Initialism.

Noun

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dob

1. Initialism of date of birth.

Alternative forms

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• DOB

Etymology 4

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Short for do our best. dyb (or dib) and dob were used as abbreviated forms of do your best and do our best in certain Scout chants.

Verb

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dob (third-person singular simple present dobs, present participle dobbing, simple past and past participle dobbed)

1. (intransitive, sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.
   • 2009, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, page 54:I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.
   • 2009, Justin Pollard, The Interesting Bits:Why were there 212 fatalities at the first boy scout camp? There wasn't much dybbing and dobbing at Robert Baden-Powell's first scout camp as the camp in question was in Mafeking and took place during a particularly nasty siege[…]

Anagrams

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• Bod, bod, ODB, OBD, BDO, BOD

Czech

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): [ˈdop]
• Rhymes: -op

Noun

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dob

1. genitive plural of doba

Anagrams

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• bod

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): [ˈdob]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: dob
• Rhymes: -ob

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Ugric *tᴕmpɜ- (“to throw down, to strike (with a clapping sound)”).[1]

Verb

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dob

1. (ambitransitive) to throw, to cast (to cause an object to move rapidly through the air) Synonyms: hajít, vet
   • 1977, Márta Nedók, “Úttörőházunk honismereti szakköre szót kér”, in Honismeret‎[2], volume 4, number 5:A hátsó ember dobja a labdát, amit az ellenfélnek vissza kell ütni.The person in the back throws the ball, which the opponent has to hit back.
2. (transitive) to drop (to intentionally let fall, to release hold of)
   • 1931, Ernő Kulinyi, “Eszter”, in A szép királyné férje‎[3]:Mikor a király eltűnt az ajtó mögött, a fényes aranyat a kútba dobta.When the king had disappeared behind the door, he dropped the shiny gold piece into the well.
3. (ambitransitive, games) to roll (to throw dice)
   • 1986, “A novajidrányi hármas szerencse”, in Észak-Magyarország‎[4], volume 42, number 124:Hogyan lehet egymás után háromszor hatost dobni a kockával?How to roll a six with the dice three times in a row?
4. (transitive, colloquial) to dump (to end a relationship with)
   • 2015, Vicky Ebergényi, chapter 2, in Marion ​Farrington‎[5], volume II:A gyönyörű pomponlány egyedül van, mert dobta a hülye pasiját [...]The beautiful cheerleader is alone, because she dumped her stupid boyfriend [...]
5. (transitive, computing) to throw (to send an error)
   • 2011, Gusztáv Nagy, “3.9.3 Kivételkezelés”, in Webprogramozás-alapismeretek‎[6]:Ha nincs kivétel dobva, a kód normális módon fog folytatódni.If no exception is thrown, the code will proceed normally.

Conjugation

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Click for archaic forms			1st person sg	2nd person sginformal	3rd person sg,2nd p. sg formal	1st person pl	2nd person plinformal	3rd person pl,2nd p. pl formal
indica­tive	indica­tive	pre­sent	indef.	dobok	dobsz	dob	dobunk	dobtok	dobnak
			def.	dobom	dobod	dobja	dobjuk	dobjátok	dobják
			2nd obj	doblak
		past	indef.	dobtam	dobtál	dobott	dobtunk	dobtatok	dobtak
			def.	dobtam	dobtad	dobta	dobtuk	dobtátok	dobták
			2nd obj	dobtalak
		future		Future is expressed with a present-tense verb with a completion-marking prefix and/or a time adverb, or—more explicitly—with the infinitive plus the conjugated auxiliary verb fog, e.g. dobni fog.
archaicpreterite		indef.	dobék	dobál	doba	dobánk	dobátok	dobának
		def.	dobám	dobád	dobá	dobánk	dobátok	dobák
		2nd obj	dobálak
archaic past		Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala (volt), e.g. dob vala, dobott vala/volt.
archaic future	indef.	dobandok	dobandasz	doband	dobandunk	dobandotok	dobandanak
	def.	dobandom	dobandod	dobandja	dobandjuk	dobandjátok	dobandják
	2nd obj	dobandalak
condi­tional	pre­sent	indef.	dobnék	dobnál	dobna	dobnánk	dobnátok	dobnának
		def.	dobnám	dobnád	dobná	dobnánk (or dobnók)	dobnátok	dobnák
		2nd obj	dobnálak
	past		Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. dobott volna
sub­junc­tive	sub­junc­tive	pre­sent	indef.	dobjak	dobj ordobjál	dobjon	dobjunk	dobjatok	dobjanak
			def.	dobjam	dobd ordobjad	dobja	dobjuk	dobjátok	dobják
			2nd obj	dobjalak
(archaic) past		Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. dobott légyen
infinitive	dobni		dobnom	dobnod	dobnia	dobnunk	dobnotok	dobniuk
otherforms	verbal noun		present part.	past part.	future part.	adverbial participle		causative
	dobás		dobó	dobott	dobandó	dobva (dobván)
The archaic passive conjugation had the same -(t)at/-(t)et suffix as the causative, followed by -ik in the 3rd-person singular(and the concomitant changes in conditional and subjunctive mostly in the 1st- and 3rd-person singular like with other traditional -ik verbs).

Potential conjugation of dob

Click for archaic forms			1st person sg	2nd person sginformal	3rd person sg,2nd p. sg formal	1st person pl	2nd person plinformal	3rd person pl,2nd p. pl formal
indica­tive	indica­tive	pre­sent	indef.	dobhatok	dobhatsz	dobhat	dobhatunk	dobhattok	dobhatnak
			def.	dobhatom	dobhatod	dobhatja	dobhatjuk	dobhatjátok	dobhatják
			2nd obj	dobhatlak
		past	indef.	dobhattam	dobhattál	dobhatott	dobhattunk	dobhattatok	dobhattak
			def.	dobhattam	dobhattad	dobhatta	dobhattuk	dobhattátok	dobhatták
			2nd obj	dobhattalak
archaicpreterite		indef.	dobhaték	dobhatál	dobhata	dobhatánk	dobhatátok	dobhatának
		def.	dobhatám	dobhatád	dobhatá	dobhatánk	dobhatátok	dobhaták
		2nd obj	dobhatálak
archaic past		Two additional past tenses: the present and the (current) past forms followed by vala (volt), e.g. dobhat vala, dobhatott vala/volt.
archaic future	indef.	dobhatandokor dobandhatok	dobhatandaszor dobandhatsz	dobhatandor dobandhat	dobhatandunkor dobandhatunk	dobhatandotokor dobandhattok	dobhatandanakor dobandhatnak
	def.	dobhatandomor dobandhatom	dobhatandodor dobandhatod	dobhatandjaor dobandhatja	dobhatandjukor dobandhatjuk	dobhatandjátokor dobandhatjátok	dobhatandjákor dobandhatják
	2nd obj	dobhatandalakor dobandhatlak
condi­tional	pre­sent	indef.	dobhatnék	dobhatnál	dobhatna	dobhatnánk	dobhatnátok	dobhatnának
		def.	dobhatnám	dobhatnád	dobhatná	dobhatnánk (or dobhatnók)	dobhatnátok	dobhatnák
		2nd obj	dobhatnálak
	past		Indicative past forms followed by volna, e.g. dobhatott volna
sub­junc­tive	sub­junc­tive	pre­sent	indef.	dobhassak	dobhass ordobhassál	dobhasson	dobhassunk	dobhassatok	dobhassanak
			def.	dobhassam	dobhasd ordobhassad	dobhassa	dobhassuk	dobhassátok	dobhassák
			2nd obj	dobhassalak
(archaic) past		Indicative past forms followed by légyen, e.g. dobhatott légyen
infinitive	(dobhatni)		(dobhatnom)	(dobhatnod)	(dobhatnia)	(dobhatnunk)	(dobhatnotok)	(dobhatniuk)
otherforms	positive adjective			negative adjective		adverbial participle
	dobható			dobhatatlan		(dobhatva / dobhatván)

Derived terms

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• dobál
• dobás
• dobós

(With verbal prefixes):

• átdob
• bedob
• beledob
• eldob
• feldob
• földob
• idedob
• kidob
• ledob
• megdob
• odadob
• rádob
• összedob
• visszadob

Expressions

• a lovak közé dobja a gyeplőt
• piacra dob

Etymology 2

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Probably an onomatopoeia.[2]

Noun

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dob (plural dobok)

1. drum (a percussive musical instrument)

Declension

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singular	plural
nominative	dob	dobok
accusative	dobot	dobokat
dative	dobnak	doboknak
instrumental	dobbal	dobokkal
causal-final	dobért	dobokért
translative	dobbá	dobokká
terminative	dobig	dobokig
essive-formal	dobként	dobokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	dobban	dobokban
superessive	dobon	dobokon
adessive	dobnál	doboknál
illative	dobba	dobokba
sublative	dobra	dobokra
allative	dobhoz	dobokhoz
elative	dobból	dobokból
delative	dobról	dobokról
ablative	dobtól	doboktól
non-attributivepossessive – singular	dobé	doboké
non-attributivepossessive – plural	dobéi	dobokéi

Possessive forms of dob

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	dobom	dobjaim
2nd person sing.	dobod	dobjaid
3rd person sing.	dobja	dobjai
1st person plural	dobunk	dobjaink
2nd person plural	dobotok	dobjaitok
3rd person plural	dobjuk	dobjaik

Derived terms

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• dobol
• dobos

Compound words

• csörgődob
• dobfelszerelés
• dobhártya
• dobverő
• üstdob

References

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1. ^ Entry #1866 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
2. ^ dob in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

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• (to throw): dob in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (drum): dob in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• dob in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

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Alternative forms

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• dob' (superseded)

Particle

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dob

1. (dialectal) alternative form of b’ Dob ionann cor dúinnWe fared alike (literally, ‘The circumstance was the same for us’)

Usage notes

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• This form is used before words beginning with a vowel or fh followed by a vowel.

Komo

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Noun

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dob

1. lion

References

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• RWC Workshop (eds.). 2015. Komo – English Dictionary. SIL International.

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dobь.

Noun

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dȏb f (Cyrillic spelling до̑б)

1. age

Declension

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singular	plural
nominative	dob	dobi
genitive	dobi	dobi
dative	dobi	dobima
accusative	dob	dobi
vocative	dobi	dobi
locative	dobi	dobima
instrumental	dobi	dobima

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• doba

Slovene

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /dóːp/

Noun

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dọ̑b m inan

1. oak Synonym: hrást

Declension

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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	dób
gen. sing.	dóba
singular	dual	plural
nominative(imenovȃlnik)	dób	dóba	dóbi
genitive(rodȋlnik)	dóba	dóbov	dóbov
dative(dajȃlnik)	dóbu	dóboma	dóbom
accusative(tožȋlnik)	dób	dóba	dóbe
locative(mẹ̑stnik)	dóbu	dóbih	dóbih
instrumental(orọ̑dnik)	dóbom	dóboma	dóbi

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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dôb

1. genitive dual/plural of dóba

Further reading

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• “dob”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “dob”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references