cuba

See also: Cuba, cúba, cubà, Cúba, čuba, and чуба

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.ba/
• Homophones: cubas, cubât

Verb

cuba

1. third-person singular past historic of cuber

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese cuba (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cūpa (“cask; vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuβa̝/

Noun

cuba f (plural cubas)

1. cask (large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks)

   Synonyms: bocoi, pipa

2. industrial vat (large tub)

Derived terms

• cubeta

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cuba”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cuba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uba

Adjective

cuba

1. feminine singular of cubo

Noun

cuba f (plural cube)

1. cupola

Anagrams

• buca

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Kikuyu

Alternative forms

• cuuba

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili chupa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃùːβàꜜ/, /ɕùːβàꜜ/

This u is pronounced long.

As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc. Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.

Noun

cuba class 14 (plural macuba)(diminutive gacuba) or cuba class 9/10 (plural cuba)

1. bottle

   Synonym: mũcuba

References

• Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 18.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cubā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cubō

References

• cuba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cuba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cuba, from Latin cūpa (“cask; vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuβɐ/

• Audio (Portugal):

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• Homophone: Cuba

Noun

cuba f (plural s)

1. cask (large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks)
2. industrial vat (large tub)

Synonyms

• (cask): tina, tonel
• (vat): tanque

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish [Term?], from Latin cupa, from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant.

Noun

cuba f (plural cubas)

1. barrel

Synonyms

• barril
• pipa

Derived terms

• borracho como una cuba, como una cuba