Cuba

See also cuba, and cubà

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Disputed; likely from Taíno cubao ("abundant fertile land") or coabana ("great place").

Pronunciation

• enPR: kyo͞oʹ-bə, IPA: /ˈkjuːbə/, X-SAMPA: /"kju:b@/
• (Australia) IPA: [ˈkjʉː.bə]
• (UK, US) IPA: [ˈkjuː.bə]

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uːbə
• Hyphenation: Cu‧ba

Proper noun

Cuba

1. A country and the largest island in the Caribbean. Official name: Republic of Cuba.

Translations

country and largest island in Caribbean

• Arabic: كوبا (ar) (kuuba) f
• Armenian: Կուբա (hy) (Kuba) 
• Asturian: Cuba (ast) f
• Belarusian: Куба (be) (Kúba) f 
• Bengali: কিউবা (bn)
• Breton: Kuba (br)
• Bulgarian: Куба (bg) (Kúba) f 
• Catalan: Cuba (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古巴 (cmn) (Gǔbā)

• Czech: Kuba (cs) f
• Danish: Cuba (da)
• Dutch: Cuba (nl)
• Esperanto: Kubo (eo)
• Estonian: Kuuba (et)
• Faroese: Kuba (fo) f and n
• Finnish: Kuuba (fi)
• French: Cuba (fr) m
• Galician: Cuba (gl) f
• Georgian: კუბა (ka) (kʼuba) 
• German: Kuba (de) n
• Greek: Κούβα (el) (Koúva) f 
• Haitian Creole: Kiba
• Hebrew: קובה (he) (quba)
• Hindi: क्यूबा (hi) (kyūbā)
• Hungarian: Kuba (hu)
• Interlingua: Cuba (ia)
• Irish: Cúba (ga) m
• Italian: Cuba (it) f
• Japanese: キューバ (ja) (Kyūba) (玖馬 (ja) (obsolete))
• Kalenjin: Kiuba
• Kamba: Kiuba
• Khmer: គុយបា (km)
• Kikuyu: Kiuba

• Korean: 쿠바 (ko) (Kuba)
• Lithuanian: Kuba (lt)
• Luhya: Kiuba
• Luo: Kiuba
• Macedonian: Куба (mk) (Kùba) f
• Maltese: il-Kuba (mt)
• Meru: Kiuba
• Mongolian: Куба (mn) (Kúba) 
• Navajo: Kyóoba
• Norwegian: Cuba (no)
• Occitan: Cuba (oc) f
• Pashto: كيوبا (ps) (kyubā) f
• Persian: کوبا (fa) (Kūbā)
• Polish: Kuba (pl) f
• Portuguese: Cuba (pt) f
• Romanian: Cuba (ro) f
• Russian: Куба (ru) (Kúba) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Куба (sh) f

  Roman: Kuba (sh) f

• Sicilian: Cubba (scn) f
• Sinhalese: කියුබාව (si)
• Slovak: Kuba (sk) f
• Slovene: Kúba (sl) f
• Spanish: Cuba (es) f
• Swahili: Kuba (sw)
• Swedish: Kuba (sv)
• Telugu: క్యూబా (te)
• Thai: คิวบา (th) (kiw-baa)
• Turkish: Küba (tr)
• Ukrainian: Куба (uk) (Kúba) f 
• Urdu: کیوبا (ur) (kyūbā)
• Vietnamese: Cuba (vi)

See also

• (countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States ^{(Categories: en:Countries, en:Countries of North America)}

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Asturian

Wikipedia ^ast

Proper noun

Cuba f 

1. Cuba

Related terms

• cubanu

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba

Derived terms

• cubà

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Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a

Proper noun

Cuba

1. Cuba (country)

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Proper noun

Cuba n

1. Cuba (country)

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French

Proper noun

Cuba m

1. Cuba (country)

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Galician

Wikipedia ^gl

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba

Related terms

• cubano

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Cuba

1. Cuba (country)

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uba

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba

Derived terms

• cubano

Anagrams

• buca

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Latin

Proper noun

Cuba (genitive Cubae); f, first declension

1. Cuba

Inflection

nominative	Cuba
genitive	Cubae
dative	Cubae
accusative	Cubam
ablative	Cubā
vocative	Cuba
locative	Cubae

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Cuba

1. Cuba (country)

Related terms

• cuban, cubaner, kuban, kubaner
• cubansk, kubansk

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Occitan

Wikipedia ^oc

Proper noun

Cuba f 

1. Cuba

Related terms

• cuban

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Portuguese

Wikipedia ^pt

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkuβɐ/

• Audio (Portugal)

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• Homophone: cuba

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba (country in the Caribbean)
2. Cuba (island which forms most of the country of Cuba)

Related terms

• cubano

Etymology 2

Possibly from Arabic قبة (qubba, “small tower”), or from cuba (“cask”).

Proper noun

Cuba

1. a Portuguese village in Beja district.

Related terms

• cubense

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Romanian

Proper noun

Cuba

1. Cuba (country)

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba

Related terms

• cubano