In more recent albums he is Oburiks, after obur, which means "gluttonous". Early Turkish editions called him Hopdediks, after Hop dedik!, which is a phrase uttered when someone overdoes something.In Icelandic, his name is Steinríkur, roughly meaning "rich in stone", due to Obelix's fascination with stones.His name is also almost never changed in official translations (not counting orthographical variations such as Obeliks in e.g.
He is a tall, obese man (he refers to himself as "well-padded" or "man with a slipped chest" and will immediately knock out anyone who calls him "fat") with two notable attributes: his permanently phenomenal strength and his voracious appetite for food, especially wild boar. Obelix is Asterix's closest friend and works as a menhir sculptor and delivery man.