toub

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic طُوب (ṭūb). Compare English adobe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tub/

Noun

toub m (uncountable)

1. (Africa) mud brick, adobe
   • 1921, Henri-René Lenormand, Le Simoun‎^[1]:

     derrière vos murs en toub

     behind your brick walls

Obokuitai

Noun

toub

1. breast

Further reading

• Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)

Old High German

Alternative forms

• toup, (Central German) doub

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *daub, whence also Old English dēaf, Old Norse daufr.

Adjective

toub

1. deaf

Descendants

• Middle High German: toup; doup, douf
  • Central Franconian: dauv, doov, daaf
    • Luxembourgish: daf
    • Hunsrik: daab
  • German: taub
  • Yiddish: טויב (toyb)