Noun: obus
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Une rafale d’obus de mortiers est tombée près du poste médical. Panique. (A volley of mortar shells have fallen near the medical post. Panic.) [2011 September 22, “Une Libye aux allures d'hécatombe”, in L'Obs:]
Nouns inflected like obus
droit de cuissage,
diméthylmercure,
ice tea,
ekamanganèse,
sativa,
Androphages,
scalap,
schuss,
aminométhane,
développement personnel,
sucre farine,
slavon,
soulas,
souabe,
sorabe,
somali,
soccer,
sodium,
javanais,
as des as, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Haubitze, from Czech houfnice (“catapult”). See: German Nouns '
Haubitze', Czech Nouns '
houfnice'.
Verbs referencing "obus"
Dutch Nouns
obus, Portuguese Nouns
obus, Catalan Nouns
obús, Romanian Nouns
obuz.
Translations