sobar
Galician
Etymology
Unknown.[1] Cognate with Portuguese sovar and Spanish sobar. Maybe related with "sopire".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [soˈβaɾ]
Verb
sobar (first-person singular present sobo, first-person singular preterite sobei, past participle sobado)
- to press; to knead
- Synonym: premer
- to fall sleep; to be sleepy
- to rub; to touch; to grope
- (figuratively) to beat up
- 1877, O Tio Marcos da Portela, 39, p. 155:
- O outro día pola mañá cedo, o rapaz achegouse onda min qu'inda estaba no leito, e dixome: «meu pai; voulle collendo unha xenreira ós que viven na ciudá, que si pillo a un solo nun carreiro, sobolle as costelas canto pódea»
- The other day, early in the morning, my child came to me, I was still in bed, and told me: «my father; I'm growing such a grudge against the ones living in the city that if I find one alone at a road, I'll knead his ribs as much as I can»
- O outro día pola mañá cedo, o rapaz achegouse onda min qu'inda estaba no leito, e dixome: «meu pai; voulle collendo unha xenreira ós que viven na ciudá, que si pillo a un solo nun carreiro, sobolle as costelas canto pódea»
- 1877, O Tio Marcos da Portela, 39, p. 155:
- to incite, stir up
- Synonyms: apurrar, encirrar, retar
Conjugation
Conjugation of sobar
singular | plural | |||||
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person | first | second | third | first | second | third |
Infinitive | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
impersonal | sobar | |||||
personal | sobar | sobares | sobar | sobarmos | sobardes | sobaren |
Gerund | ||||||
sobando | ||||||
Past participle | singular | plural | ||||
masculine | sobado | sobados | ||||
feminine | sobada | sobadas | ||||
Indicative | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
present | sobo | sobas | soba | sobamos | sobades | soban |
imperfect | sobaba | sobabas | sobaba | sobabamos | sobabades | sobaban |
preterite | sobei | sobaches | sobou | sobamos | sobastes | sobaron |
pluperfect | sobara | sobaras | sobara | sobaramos | sobarades | sobaran |
future | sobarei | sobarás | sobará | sobaremos | sobaredes | sobarán |
conditional | sobaría | sobarías | sobaría | sobariamos | sobariades | sobarían |
Subjunctive | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
present | sobe | sobes | sobe | sobemos | sobedes | soben |
preterite | sobase | sobases | sobase | sobásemos | sobásedes | sobasen |
future | sobar | sobares | sobar | sobarmos | sobardes | sobaren |
Imperative | – | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
affirmative | – | soba | sobe | sobemos | sobade | soben |
negative | – | sobes | sobe | sobemos | sobedes | soben |
Derived terms
- soba
References
- “sobar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “sobar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “sobar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “sobar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Romanian
Etymology
From sobă + -ar.
Noun
sobar m (plural sobari)
- stovemaker
Declension
Declension of sobar
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) sobar | sobarul | (niște) sobari | sobarii |
genitive/dative | (unui) sobar | sobarului | (unor) sobari | sobarilor |
vocative | sobarule | sobarilor |
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
sȍbār m (Cyrillic spelling со̏ба̄р)
- valet (hotel employee)
Declension
Declension of sobar
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | sobar | sobari |
genitive | sobara | sobara |
dative | sobaru | sobarima |
accusative | sobara | sobare |
vocative | sobaru | sobari |
locative | sobaru | sobarima |
instrumental | sobarom | sobarima |
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soˈbaɾ/ [soˈβ̞aɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: so‧bar
Verb
sobar (first-person singular present sobo, first-person singular preterite sobé, past participle sobado)
- to knead
- Synonyms: amasar, heñir
- to hit or strike punishingly
- to fondle; feel up; grope
- (colloquial) to snooze; sleep
- to massage (someone's body or a part of a body)
Conjugation
Conjugation of sobar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | |||||||
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gerund | |||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | |||||||
plural | |||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vos | tú||||||
imperfect | |||||||
preterite | |||||||
future | |||||||
conditional | |||||||
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vos2 | tú||||||
imperfect (ra) | |||||||
imperfect (se) | |||||||
future1 | |||||||
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | vos | tú||||||
negative | no sobes | no sobe | no sobemos | no sobéis | no soben |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of sobar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
singular | plural | ||||||
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1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
with infinitive | |||||||
dative | , | , | |||||
accusative | , , | , , | |||||
with gerund | |||||||
dative | , | , | |||||
accusative | , , | , , | |||||
with informal second-person singular tú imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
with informal second-person singular vos imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
with formal second-person singular imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | , | not used | ||||
accusative | not used | , , | not used | , | |||
with first-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
with informal second-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
with formal second-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | not used | , | ||||
accusative | not used | , | not used | , , |
Derived terms
- sobador
Further reading
- “sobar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014