# ober
## Breton
### Etymology

Verbal noun from Old Breton oper, from Latin opera (cf. Cornish ober, Welsh gober). Inflected forms in gr- or gwr- are from Proto-Brythonic *gwrėɣɨd, from Proto-Celtic *wregeti, cognate with Welsh gwneud (older forms with initial gwr-) and Cornish gwul (all forms in gwr-).

### Verb

ober
* (transitive) to do, make
* (auxiliary) used as an auxiliary verb to conjugate any verb
    Gwerzhañ a ran ma zi hiziv.I sell my house today ("Sell I do my house today").

#### Usage notes

* All forms with initial gr- occur after the verbal particle (a, e) and mutate irregularly so that the initial g- disappears, e.g. a ran, e reomp instead of *a c'hran, *e c'hreomp. This oddity comes from the old forms in gwr-: the initial gw- was being lenited to w-, and then the -w- was dropped in both lenited and non-lenited forms.

#### Alternative forms

* gober

#### Derived terms

* ober goap

## Cornish
### Etymology

From Latin opera (“work”). Cognate with Breton ober, Irish and Scottish Gaelic obair, Manx obbyr, and Welsh gober. Doublet of opera.

### Noun

ober m (plural oberow)
* work
    Synonyms: gonis, gweyth, hwel, lavur
* act
    Synonyms: akt, gwrians, parth
* deed
    Synonym: gwrians
* exercise

#### Derived terms

* badd-ober (“bad deed”)
* begh ober (“workload”)
* da ober (“good deed”)
* drogober (“crime”)
* hager ober (“crime”)
* hwel ober (“industry”)
* ober mas (“good deed”)
* ober tre (“homework”)
* oberador m (“operator”)
* oberadores f (“operator”)
* oberadow (“argument”)
* oberedh (“work (physics)”)
* oberen (“job, task”)
* oberer m (“worker”)
* oberi (“to act, create, operate, work”, verb)
* oberores f (“worker”)
* oberwas (“servant”)
* oberyans (“operation”)
* omoberi (“exercise”, verb)
* rann ober (“task”)
* shoppa ober (“workshop”)
* tebel ober (“evil deed”)

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈobɛr]
* Rhymes: -obɛr
* Hyphenation: ober

### Verb

ober
* second-person singular imperative of obrat

## Dutch
### Etymology

From German Ober, short for Oberkellner (“head waiter”). Compare Dutch kelner, which is also borrowed from German. In both Dutch and German, the distinction between ober/Ober and kelner/Kellner is now neglected.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈoːbər/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oːbər

### Noun

ober m (plural obers, diminutive obertje n)
* waiter
    Ober, mag ik de menukaart alstublieft? ― Waiter, may I have the menu please?
    De obers waren druk bezig met het serveren van de gasten. ― The waiters were busy serving the guests.
    Dat obertje was erg behulpzaam en vriendelijk. ― That young waiter was very helpful and friendly.

### Anagrams

* boer, bore

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Preposition

ober [with dative]
* (Austria, South Tyrol) over, above
    Synonym: oberhalb
    Ober der Eingangstür hängt ein Schild.Over the entrance door there's a sign hanging.

### See also

* ober-
* oberer
* oben
* Ober

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Ober.

### Noun

ober m (plural oberi)
* (dated) head waiter

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From German Ober.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǒːber/
* Hyphenation: o‧ber

### Noun

óber m (Cyrillic spelling о́бер)
* (regional, Kajkavian, dated) waiter

### References

* “ober”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Silesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Czech obr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔ.bɛr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔbɛr
* Syllabification: o‧ber

### Noun

ober m pers
* giant
    Synonym: gigant

#### Related terms

* obry

### Further reading

* Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “ober”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 192