oby

English

Noun

oby (plural obies)

  1. Archaic form of obeah.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “oby”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Old Tupi

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔˈβɨ/, [ɔˈβ̞ɨ]
  • Rhymes: -ɨ
  • Hyphenation: o‧by

Noun

oby (IIa class pluriform, absolute toby, R1 roby, R2 soby) (possessable)

  1. green
  2. blue
    Synonym: obyeté
  3. purple

Adjective

oby (IIa class pluriform, R1 roby, R2 soby)

  1. green
  2. blue
    Synonym: obyeté
  3. purple

Derived terms
  • esaoby
  • obyeté
  • obykanugûá
  • obymanisoba

See also
Colors in Old Tupi · (layout · text)
     ting      tingaíba, pytang      un
             pirang              tingaíba, pytang              îub; tingaíba, pytang
             Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)              Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)              Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
             Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), obyeté              Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), obyeté              Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), obyeté
             Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)              Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)              tingaíba, pytang

Further reading

Polish

Etymology

Univerbation of o by.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.bɨ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔbɨ
  • Syllabification: o‧by

Particle

oby

  1. hopefully, if only, let, may, had better
    Synonyms: bodaj, niech, niechaj

Declension
Combined forms of oby
singular plural
1st person obym obyśmy
2nd person obyś obyście
3rd person oby oby

Further reading
  • oby in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • oby in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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