# oba
## English
### Alternative forms

* ọba

### Etymology

From Yoruba ọba.

### Noun

oba (plural obas)
* A king of a Yoruba polity.

#### Derived terms

* iyoba

#### Translations
### References

* John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “oba”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

### Anagrams

* Åbo, bao, AOB, boa, Abo, ABO, BAO, Boa, a.o.b., OAB, Bao, abo, A/B/O

## Aklanon
### Adjective

oba
* naked

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

Cognates are found only in Oghuz languages, such as Turkmen ōba (“village”), Turkish oba (“large nomad tent; clan, tribe, village”). Compare, however, ova (“plains”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

oba (definite accusative obanı, plural obalar)
* camp of nomads or herdsmen
* a small village or settlement
* (chiefly iran) yurt

#### Derived terms

* el-oba

### References

* ↑ Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, page 400

### Further reading

* “oba” in Obastan.com.

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech oba, from Proto-Slavic *oba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oba/
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

oba m (feminine/neuter obě)
* both

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “oba”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “oba”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “oba”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Guhu-Samane
### Noun

oba
* water

### References

* Ritva Hemmilä, Orthography and Phonology Database: Islands and Momase Regions (Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1998), page 42, Guhu-Samane

## Irish
### Noun

oba
* Alternative form of hob

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Japanese
### Romanization

oba
* Rōmaji transcription of おば

## Laz
### Noun

oba
* Latin spelling of ობა (oba)

## Old Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈoba/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈoba/

### Numeral

oba
* both

#### Descendants

* Czech: oba

### References

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “oba”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Old High German
### Etymology 1

Akin to ūf

#### Preposition

oba
* above

#### Adverb

oba
* above

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *jabai.

#### Conjunction

oba
* Alternative form of ibu

##### Descendants

* Middle High German: obe, ob, op
** German: ob
** Yiddish: אויב (oyb)

#### References

* Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

## Old Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oba. First attested in the 14th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /ɔba/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ɔba/

### Numeral

oba
* both

#### Descendants

* Polish: oba
* Silesian: ôba

### References

* Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “oba”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
* Mańczak, Witold (2017) “oba”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
* Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “oba”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “oba”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

## Old Tupi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔ.βa/
* Rhymes: -ɔβa
* Hyphenation: o‧ba

### Noun

oba (possessable, IIe class pluriform, absolute soba, R1 roba, R2 soba)
* leaf (green, flat organ of most vegetative plants)

#### Descendants

* Nheengatu: awa

## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish oba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔ.ba/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈɔ.ba/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔba
* Syllabification: o‧ba
* Homophone: -oba

### Numeral

oba (collective oboje)
* both
    Synonym: obydwa

#### Declension
### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), oba is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 35 times in scientific texts, 47 times in news, 26 times in essays, 48 times in fiction, and 14 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 170 times, making it the 338th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “oba”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 298

### Further reading

* oba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* oba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “oba”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* “OBA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2018 July 1
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “oba”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “oba”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “oba”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 433

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈo.bɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈo.bɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈo.ba/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈo.bɐ/ [ˈo.βɐ]
* Hyphenation: o‧ba

### Interjection

oba
* (usually childish) whee; yay (expression of pleasure or enjoyment)
    Synonyms: iúpi, eba

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ôba/
* Hyphenation: o‧ba

### Numeral

ȍba (Cyrillic spelling о̏ба)
* both (for masculine and neuter pairs)
    Synonym: ȍbadvā

#### Related terms

* ȍbje/ȍbe (for feminine pairs)
* ȍboje (for mixed pairs)
* obòjica

## Slovak
### Alternative forms

* obidva

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɔba]

### Pronoun

oba m inan
* both

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “oba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Adjective

oba f
* feminine singular of obo

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اوبه (“large tent; nomad family”). Cognate with Azerbaijani oba, Turkmen ōba (“village”).

### Noun

oba (definite accusative obayı, plural obalar)
* clan, tribe, village

### References

* oba, Nisanyan, Turkish Etymological Dictionary
* *ōpa, *ṓp`V in Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

## Turkmen
### Etymology

Cognate with Azerbaijani and Turkish oba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oːˈbɑ/ (nominative)
* IPA: /oːˈbɑː/ (dative)
* Rhymes: -ɑ, -ɑː
* Hyphenation: o‧ba

### Adjective

obā (comparative obarak, superlative iň oba)
* rural, agricultural

### Noun

obā (definite accusative obany, plural obālar)
* village

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “oba” in Webonary.org
* “oba” in Enedilim.com

## Volapük
### Pronoun

oba
* (possessive) (genitive singular of ob) my, of mine
    Synonym: obik
** 1940, “Pro yunanef Nedänik”, in Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, pages 30, 37:Ziom oba binom bumavan, bumom domis in zif.My uncle is an architect, he builds houses in the city.
** 1931, Arie de Jong, Gramat Volapüka, § 256:Blibolös nog boso! jimatan oba okömof onu.Please stay for a moment, my wife is coming right away.