dub
v.v. to give someone or something a name or a nickname. It is also used when you replace the original voices in a movie with a different language.
v. to bestow a name or nickname upon someone or something; also, to provide a film or broadcast with a new soundtrack, typically in a different language.
The press decided to dub him the king of pop.
The documentary was originally filmed in French, but the studio decided to dub it into English for the international market.
Though the scientist never sought fame, his colleagues began to dub him the father of modern genetics after his groundbreaking paper was published in a major journal.
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.
1505-1515
1885-90. Imitative; see also flub, flubdub.
From a shortening of the word double.
From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”).
From shortening of double dime (“twenty”).
From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).
Transitive; takes a direct object. When used for naming, it often follows the pattern 'dub [object] [name]'.
They dubbed him as the hero.They dubbed him the hero.Unlike 'describe' or 'regard', the verb 'dub' does not take the preposition 'as' before the name or title.