об-
Russian
Prefix
об- • (ob-)
- Alternative form of о- (o-) (before certain letters)
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- о- (usually before plosives, sometimes also other consonants)
- оп- (before unvoiced consonants)
- оба- (in a few words)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *ob, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi. See о.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ob/
Prefix
об- (Latin spelling ob-)
- around, enclosing, surrounding
- јахати → објахати
- грлити → обгрлити
- кружити → окружити
- around, throughout, wholly
- јавити → објавити
- узети → обузети
- лизати → облизати
- on the surface or top of something
- грепсти → огрепсти
- forms perfective verbs from imperfectives
- храбрити → охрабрити
- quite, -ish
- мален → омален
Derived terms
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