Mobile

See also: mobile and -mobile

English

Etymology

From the name of (Mobile Bay, from the name of) the Mobile tribe, perhaps from the name of a Native town somewhere in what is now central Alabama, various spelled Mabila or Maubila.

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: mōbēlʹ, mōʹbēl, IPA(key): /moʊˈbiːl/, /ˈmoʊbiːl/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məʊˈbiːl/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːl

Proper noun

Mobile

  1. A city, the county seat of Mobile County, in southwestern Alabama.
    • 1966, Bob Dylan, “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”, in Blonde on Blonde:
      Oh, Mama / Is this really the end? / To be stuck here inside of Mobile / With the Memphis blues again

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmoːbilə/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

Mobile n (strong, genitive Mobiles, plural Mobiles)

  1. (art) mobile

Declension

Declension of Mobile [neuter, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Mobile die Mobiles
genitive eines des Mobiles der Mobiles
dative einem dem Mobile den Mobiles
accusative ein das Mobile die Mobiles

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