pöbel
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Pöbel, from Old French pueple, from Latin populus. Attested since 1734. Cognate of Danish pøbel, French peuple.
Noun
[edit]pöbel c
- (derogatory) plebs, riffraff, mob, rabble ((despised, unsophisticated) common people)
- pöbeln
- the plebs
- mob, rabble (disorderly, often angry crowd (made up of common people), in a not necessarily derogatory sense)
- En arg pöbel hade samlats utanför mitt hus
- An angry mob had gathered outside my house
Usage notes
[edit]Often a bit ironic in (sense 1), whether genuinely meant to be derogatory or not, similar to "plebs."
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | pöbel | pöbels |
| definite | pöbeln | pöbelns | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- pöbel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- pöbel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- pöbel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- pöbel in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)