tobe

• IPA^(key): /təʊb/

tobe (plural tobes)

1. A cotton garment worn in parts of northern Africa.
   • 1889, Edinburgh Review, page 391:

     It consists, for men and women alike, of a ‘tobe,’ or straight piece of cotton cloth (printed, or white with a crimson border), two breadths wide, and some twelve feet long, draped in graceful folds about the body, and fastened on the left shoulder.

   • 2010, Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley, page 4:

     She loved travelling to Egypt, and how she didn’t have to wear a tobe in Cairo.

• Beto, Tebo, beot, boet, bote

• töbe (Bern)

From Middle High German toben, from Old High German tobēn, tobōn from Proto-West Germanic *dobēn. Cognate with German toben, Middle Low German dōven.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtob̥ə/

tobe (third-person singular simple present tobet, past participle tobet, auxiliary haa)

1. to rage, rave, rampage (of a child, a person)

   Dr Goof isch nur am tobe.

   The unruly child does nothing but rage.

2. to bluster, rampage (of a wind, the weather)

   Dusse tobt dr Wind.

   The wind blusters outside.

From Proto-Finnic [Term?], probably onomatopoeic (compare dialectal Finnish topo). See also tobi, töbi, topakas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtob̥e/, [ˈtob̥e̞]
• Rhymes: -obe
• Hyphenation: to‧be

tobe (genitive tobeda, partitive tobedat, comparative tobedam, superlative kõige tobedam or tobedaim)

1. unintelligent, ignorant, foolish, stupid, dumb; simple-minded, inexperienced

   Kuidas nad võivad olla nii tobedad, et usuvad seda udujuttu?

   How can they be so ignorant as to believe that?

   Lammas pole üldsegi kõige tobedam loom.

   The sheep is not the dumbest animal.

2. silly, dumb, unreasonable

   tobe küsimus ― a silly question

   Levib igasuguseid tobedaid kuulujutte.

   There are all sorts of silly rumours going around.

   Film tundus erakordselt tobe.

   The film seemed exceptionally dumb.

• tobedus
• tobedalt

• tobu

• tobe in Sõnaveeb
• M. Langemets, M. Tiits, T. Valdre, L. Veskis, Ü. Viks, P. Voll, editors (2009), “tobe”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language]‎ (online dictionary, in Estonian), 2nd edition, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation)

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tobe

1. inflection of toben:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative