kubo

See also: Kubo

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cubo. False cognate of Tagalog kubo, which is semantically and phonetically influenced by the Spanish, but is from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu (and cognate with Indonesian and Malay kubu).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ku‧bo

Adjective

kubo

1. having stooped shoulders

Noun

kubo

1. cube

Anagrams

• buko, buok, kuob, ukob

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cubus, French cube, Italian cubo, English cube, Russian куб (kub) and German Kubus. Ultimately from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkubo]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ubo
• Hyphenation: ku‧bo

• Homophone: Kubo

Noun

kubo (accusative singular kubon, plural kuboj, accusative plural kubojn)

1. (geometry) cube

Derived terms

• ĵetkubo (“die”)
• kuba (“cubical”)
• kube (“cubically”)
• kubigi (“to cube (a number)”)

Descendants

• → Ido: kubo

Japanese

Romanization

kubo

1. Rōmaji transcription of くぼ

Sop

Noun

kubo

1. arm

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975), page 602

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• cobo, cubo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkubo/ [ˈku.bo]
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Syllabification: ku‧bo

Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *kubu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu. Cognate with Ilocano kubo, Indonesian kubu and Malay kubu. Etymologically unrelated to Spanish cubo (“cube”), but the "cube" sense has mixed into the original meaning.

Noun

kubo (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜊᜓ)

1. hut; shack; shanty (especially a cube-shaped, one-room, rural hut with a nipa or cogon grass roof and bamboo walls)

   Synonyms: dampa, barong-barong, kubakob, dalungdong

Derived terms

• bahay-kubo
• kubo-kubuhan

 

See also

• kabanya
• sagubang

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish cubo (“cube”), from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

Noun

kubo (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜊᜓ) (mathematics)

1. cube (solid with six equal square sides)

See also

• Kaaba

 

Further reading

• “kubo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018