# lob
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: lŏb, IPA: /lɒb/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒb

### Etymology 1

First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.

#### Verb

lob (third-person singular simple present lobs, present participle lobbing, simple past and past participle lobbed)
* (transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.
    The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.
    The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.
* (transitive, colloquial) To throw.
    Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw
** 2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera‎, Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 2019-04-06:In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information.
** 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
* (transitive, colloquial) To put, place.
    Synonyms: lay, lay down, put down, set down, deposit
    Lob the bacon in the pot.
* (transitive, sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
** 2011 January 15, Nabil Hassan, “Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham”, in BBC‎:Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.
* (obsolete, transitive) To let fall heavily or lazily.
** 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.

##### Translations
#### Noun

lob (plural lobs)
* (ball games) A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.
    The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
** 2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC‎:Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.

##### Derived terms

* lob jam
* lob wedge

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English lob (“a lazy lout, bundle of clothing”), from Old English *lobb, *lobbe word for lumpish or unwieldy things, from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Compare Danish lobbes (“bumpkin, clown”), Old English loppe (“spider”) (in the sense of something that hangs or dangles). Possibly influenced or borrowed through Welsh llob (“lump”).

#### Noun

lob (plural lobs)
* A lump.
** 1875, M.L. Kenny, The fortunes of Maurice Cronin‎, page 126:And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I —
* (obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country bumpkin
** c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon.
** 1694, Peter Anthony Motteux, The Fourth Book, translation of original by Rabelais, Chapter XLVII:THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market […]
* A clumsy person.
* The person who comes last in a race.
* A lob-worm.

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Middle English lob (“pollock”), cognate with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (“a type of small plump or stocky fish, cod”), Danish lubbe, from Old Norse lubba, ultimately from sense 2 in the sense of "clumsy, heavily or lumpily hanging."

#### Noun

lob (plural lobs)
* A fish, the European pollock.

### Etymology 4

Blend of long +‎ bob.

#### Noun

lob (plural lobs)
* A long bob haircut.

### References

* Nall, John Greaves (2006): Nall's Glossary of East Anglian Dialect

### See also

* lob-on (unknown etymology)

### Anagrams

* LBO, Bol., OBL, bol

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɔp/
* Hyphenation: lob
* Rhymes: -ɔp

### Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós).

#### Noun

lob f or m (plural lobben, diminutive lobbetje n)
* lobe, lobule

##### Derived terms

* kiemlob
* zaadlob

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lob.

#### Noun

lob m (plural lobs, diminutive lobje n)
* lob (arcing pass of a ball)
    Synonym: boogbal

##### Related terms

* lobben

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

lob
* inflection of lobben:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English lob.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɔb/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

lob m (plural lobs)
* (tennis) lob

### Further reading

* “lob”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* bol

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Partly back-formation from lobog, lobban, partly splitting from the obsolete lobb (“flame”). First attested in 1829.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlob]
* Hyphenation: lob
* Rhymes: -ob

### Noun

lob
* (medicine) inflammation
    Synonym: gyulladás

#### Derived terms

* agylob
* lobgát
* toroklob

### References

* ↑ lob 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.)
* ↑ lob in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

### Further reading

* lob in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English lob.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɔb/
* Rhymes: -ɔb
* Hyphenation: lòb

### Noun

lob m (invariable)
* lob (in ball games)
    Synonym: pallonetto

## Middle English
### Etymology

From Old English lobbe, variant of loppe.

### Noun

lob
* Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *lob.

### Noun

lob n
* praise

#### Descendants

* German: Lob

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French lobe.

### Noun

lob m (plural lobi)
* lobe

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

lob c
* (anatomy) a lobe

#### Derived terms

* hjärnlob
* hjässlob
* leverlob
* lunglob
* pannlob

### References

* lob in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* lob in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* lob in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)