sobol

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsoʊˌboʊl/, /ˈsoʊˌbɑl/

Noun

sobol (plural sobols)

  1. Alternative form of sobole.
    • 1897, Lucius Elmer Sayre, A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, page 25:
      Rhizomes are of two kinds, slender and fleshy. The slender rhizome, or sobol (Fig. 16), is popularly called the creeping stem of the plant.
    • 1952, Henry Allan Gleason, The New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada:
      Stems [...] erect or somewhat decumbent at base, rising from an elongate, rhizome-like, root-bearing organ, representing a sobol of the previous season.

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsobol]

Noun

sobol m anim

  1. sable (mustelid)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

adjectives

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Bulgarian соболец (sobolec).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soˈbol/

Noun

sobol m (plural soboli)

  1. mole
    Synonym: cârtiță

Declension

Declension of sobol
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative sobol sobolul soboli sobolii
genitive-dative sobol sobolului soboli sobolilor
vocative sobolule sobolilor

West Makian

Etymology

From East Makian sobal (to sail) with progressive vowel assimilation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈs̪o.bol̪/

Verb

sobol

  1. (intransitive) to sail

Conjugation

Conjugation of sobol (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tosobol mosobol asobol
2nd person nosobol fosobol
3rd person inanimate isobol dosobol
animate
imperative nosobol, sobol fosobol, sobol

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics