moble
English
Etymology
Frequentative mob + -le.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈməʊbəl/
Verb
moble (third-person singular simple present mobles, present participle mobling, simple past and past participle mobled)
- (transitive) To muffle or wrap someone's head or face (normally with up).
- 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:
- She was all mobled up at the window, her tawniness flat and dull in this snowlight, and I felt pity.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
- But who, O who, had seen the mobled Queen.
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Anagrams
- Blome, Lembo, bemol
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan moble, from Latin mobile, used in juridical contexts to refer to movable possessions. Compare Occitan mòble, French meuble, Spanish mueble. Doublet of mòbil, a borrowing from Latin.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.blə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.ble/
Noun
moble m (plural mobles)
- piece of furniture
- (heraldry) charge
Derived terms
- moblista
Related terms
- immoble
- mòbil
- mobiliari
Further reading
- “moble” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “moble”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “moble” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “moble” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.