tobe

English

tobe (plural tobes)

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.

tobe (third-person singular simple present tobet, past participle tobet, auxiliary haa)

to rage, rave, rampage (of a child, a person)
Dr Goof isch nur am tobe.
The unruly child does nothing but rage.
to bluster, rampage (of a wind, the weather)
Dusse tobt dr Wind.
The wind blusters outside.

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

tobe (genitive tobeda, partitive tobedat, comparative tobedam, superlative kõige tobedam or tobedaim)

Declension of tobe (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tobe	tobedad
accusative	nom.	tobe
accusative	gen.	tobeda
genitive		tobeda	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

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

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