dub

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To give someone or something a nickname or descriptive name.

   The press quickly dubbed her the queen of pop.

2. 2
   verb

   To replace the original speech in a film with a recording in another language.

   The Italian film was dubbed into English for cinema audiences.

3. 3
   verb

   To make someone a knight by touching them on the shoulder with a sword.

   The queen dubbed him a knight for his service.

Simplified etymology

Dub in the sense of conferring knighthood comes from a shortened form of Old French adober, “to equip with armour” or “to repair,” and has been used in English since around the Norman Conquest. The later sense “give a name or nickname” grew from the ceremonial bestowal of a title. Dub meaning “supply a film with another soundtrack” and the name of the musical genre are instead shortenings of double.

From Middle English dubben, from Old English dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword, dub”) from Old French adober (“to equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), both from Proto-West Germanic *dubbōn, from Proto-Germanic *dub- (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”). Cognate with Icelandic dubba (in dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.

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