tobe

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Noun

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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.

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Alemannic German

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Etymology

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

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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.

Estonian

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Etymology

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

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

Adjective

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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 küsimusa silly question
    Levib igasuguseid tobedaid kuulujutte.
    There are all sorts of silly rumours going around.
    Film tundus erakordselt tobe.
    The film seemed exceptionally dumb.

Declension

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Declension of tobe (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative tobe tobedad
accusative nom.
gen. tobeda
genitive tobedate
partitive tobedat tobedaid
illative tobedasse tobedatesse
tobedaisse
inessive tobedas tobedates
tobedais
elative tobedast tobedatest
tobedaist
allative tobedale tobedatele
tobedaile
adessive tobedal tobedatel
tobedail
ablative tobedalt tobedatelt
tobedailt
translative tobedaks tobedateks
tobedaiks
terminative tobedani tobedateni
essive tobedana tobedatena
abessive tobedata tobedateta
comitative tobedaga tobedatega

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References

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  • tobe in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • tobe”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

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Verb

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tobe

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