Ob

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ob"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɒb/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

Ob at Barnaul

From Russian Обь (Obʹ).

Proper noun

Ob

1. A river in Russia; the westernmost of the three great Siberian rivers.

Derived terms

• Gulf of Ob
• Ob Sea
• Ob-Ugric

 

Translations

river in Russia

• Arabic: أُوبِي m (ʔūbī)
• Armenian: Օբ (Ōb)
• Belarusian: Об f (Ob)
• Bengali: ওব নদী (ōb nodi), ওব (ōb)
• Bulgarian: Об f (Ob)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鄂畢河／鄂毕河 (zh) (Èbì hé)

• Finnish: Ob
• Georgian: ობი (obi)
• German: Ob (de) m
• Greek: Ομπ (Omp)
• Hebrew: אוב (he)
• Hindi: ऑब (ŏb), ऑब नदी (ŏb nadī)
• Hungarian: Ob (hu)
• Japanese: オビ川 (Obi-gawa)
• Kazakh: Обь (Ob), Об (Ob)
• Korean: 오비 강 (Obi gang)
• Latvian: Oba
• Lithuanian: Obė
• Macedonian: Об f (Ob)
• Manchu: ᠣᠪ (ob), ᠣᠪ
  ᠪᡳᡵᠠ (ob bira)
• Mongolian: Обь (Obʹ)
• Northern Khanty: ^{(please verify)} Ас (As)
• Polish: Ob (pl) m
• Portuguese: Ob m
• Russian: Обь (ru) f (Obʹ)
• Slovak: Ob m
• Spanish: Obi, Ob
• Ukrainian: Об f (Ob)

Etymology 2

Symbol

Ob

1. (category theory) The set of objects of a category.

Usage notes

• Usually written followed by a pair of parentheses enclosing a capital letter which is the label of some particular category.

Anagrams

• BO, Bo, bo

Polish

Ob

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Обь (Obʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔp/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Syllabification: Ob

Proper noun

Ob m inan

1. Ob (a river in Russia)
2. Ob (a town in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia)

Declension

Declension of Ob

	singular
nominative	Ob
genitive	Obu
dative	Obowi
accusative	Ob
instrumental	Obem
locative	Obie
vocative	Obie

Further reading

• Ob in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Ob in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Обь (Obʹ).

Proper noun

Ob m

1. Ob (a river in Russia)