soba
Spanish, verb
soba is spelled S-O-B-A (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 50,751st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Soba is a Spanish verb meaning “third-person singular present indicative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, sobá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of sobar”.
What does soba mean in English?
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of sobar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Paliza, zurra. 2. Acción de sobar. 3. Palabra japonesa (蕎麦) para el trigo sarraceno (alforfón), sin embargo, se utiliza más comúnmente para referirse a los fideos finos empleados en la cocina japonesa elaborados con harina de alforfón.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of soba
- sobas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to soba
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is soba in Spanish?
soba appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).