tuba

See also: Tuba and túba

English

A tuba.

Etymology 1

From Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”), first borrowed as a historic term in the 18th century. The name of the modern instrument was borrowed in the 19th century from German Tuba (“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba (literally “bass tuba”), from the same Latin source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtjuː.bə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.bə/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -uːbə

Noun

tuba (plural tubas)

1. A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
   • 1990, Thomas D. Rossing, The Science of Sound‎, page 230

     One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.

2. A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba.
3. A large reed stop in organs.

Synonyms

• grunt-horn

Derived terms

Derived terms

• tubaist
• tubalike

• tubist
• Wagner tuba

Translations

a large brass musical instrument

• Catalan: tuba (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大號／大号 (zh) (dàhào), 大号 (zh) (dàhào)

• Czech: tuba (cs) f
• Dutch: tuba (nl) m
• Esperanto: tubjo
• Estonian: tuuba
• Finnish: tuuba (fi)
• French: tuba (fr) m
• Galician: tuba (gl) f
• German: Tuba (de) f
• Hawaiian: pū leo uō
• Hungarian: tuba (hu)
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• Icelandic: túba f
• Irish: tiúba m
• Italian: tuba (it) f
• Lithuanian: tūba
• Marathi: टूबा (ṭūbā)
• Polish: tuba (pl) f
• Portuguese: tuba (pt) f
• Russian: ту́ба (ru) f (túba)
• Slovene: tuba f
• Spanish: tuba f
• Swahili: tuba
• Volapük: tubat

See also

• euphonium, sousaphone
• tube
• tubular
• corno basso (keyed bass horn)
• bombardon
• ophicleide
• valve-ophicleide
• bucina
• cornu

Further reading

• “tuba”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• tuba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Roman tuba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay tuba.

Noun

tuba (uncountable)

1. A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, .

Further reading

• Derris on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Derris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Derris on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 3

From Cebuano tuba.

Noun

tuba (plural tubas)

1. A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap.

Etymology 4

Latin tuba

Noun

tuba (plural tubas or tubae)

1. (anatomy) A tube or tubular organ.

Anagrams

• Batu, Taub, abut, batu, buat, buta, tabu

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Cebuano

Etymology

First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tu‧ba

Noun

tuba

1. a reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap
2. a harvest of bananas

Verb

tuba

1. to harvest banana fruits

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:tuba.

See also

• bahal
• bahalina

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuba]

Noun

tuba f

1. tube (a cylindrical container)
2. tuba (a large brass musical instrument)

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Estonian

Etymology

From , from Proto-Germanic *stuƀ-. Cognate to Livonian tubā, Finnish tupa, Icelandic stofa, German Stube, Swedish stuga.

Noun

tuba (genitive toa, partitive tuba)

1. room, chamber

Declension

Declension of tuba (ÕS type 18e/tuba, b-ø gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tuba	toad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	toa
genitive			tubade
partitive		tuba	tube tubasid
illative		tuppa toasse	tubadesse
inessive		toas	tubades
elative		toast	tubadest
allative		toale	tubadele
adessive		toal	tubadel
ablative		toalt	tubadelt
translative		toaks	tubadeks
terminative		toani	tubadeni
essive		toana	tubadena
abessive		toata	tubadeta
comitative		toaga	tubadega

Derived terms

• elutuba

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French

Noun

tuba m (plural tubas)

1. tuba
2. snorkel

Further reading

• “tuba”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• buta

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Galician

Noun

tuba f (plural tubas)

1. tuba

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtubɒ]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: tu‧ba

Noun

tuba (plural tubák)

1. (music) tuba

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tuba	tubák
accusative	tubát	tubákat
dative	tubának	tubáknak
instrumental	tubával	tubákkal
causal-final	tubáért	tubákért
translative	tubává	tubákká
terminative	tubáig	tubákig
essive-formal	tubaként	tubákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tubában	tubákban
superessive	tubán	tubákon
adessive	tubánál	tubáknál
illative	tubába	tubákba
sublative	tubára	tubákra
allative	tubához	tubákhoz
elative	tubából	tubákból
delative	tubáról	tubákról
ablative	tubától	tubáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	tubáé	tubáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tubáéi	tubákéi

Possessive forms of tuba
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tubám	tubáim
2nd person sing.	tubád	tubáid
3rd person sing.	tubája	tubái
1st person plural	tubánk	tubáink
2nd person plural	tubátok	tubáitok
3rd person plural	tubájuk	tubáik

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uba

Noun

tuba f (plural tube)

1. (music) tuba
2. top hat
3. (anatomy) tube

Synonyms

• (top hat) cilindro
• (tube) tuba di Falloppio

Derived terms

• tubarico

Related terms

• elicone
• sousaphone
• bombardone
• tuba bassa
• tuba contrabbassa
• tuba tenore
• euphonium
• tuba grave
• tuba wagneriana

Verb

tuba

1. third-person singular present indicative of tubare
2. second-person singular imperative of tubare

Anagrams

• tabù

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Latin

Etymology

Possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”) with similarities in meaning and form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ba/, [ˈt̪ʊbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ba/, [ˈt̪uːbä]

Noun

tuba f (genitive tubae); first declension

1. A long trumpet over 1 meter in length.
2. tube

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tuba	tubae
Genitive	tubae	tubārum
Dative	tubae	tubīs
Accusative	tubam	tubās
Ablative	tubā	tubīs
Vocative	tuba	tubae

Derived terms

• tubicen

Related terms

• tubus

Descendants

• English: tuba
• French: tuba
• Galician: tuba
• Italian: tuba
• Russian: ту́ба (túba)

References

• “tuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tuba 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)
• tuba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the bugle, trumpet sounds before the general's tent: classicum or tuba canit ad praetorium
    
• “tuba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tuba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, vol. 7, of Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Alexander Lubotsky ed., Leiden: Brill, 2008.

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Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) tubā

Etymology

From . Related to Finnish tupa.

Noun

tuba

1. (a small) house

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Malay

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayic *tuba (compare Indonesian tuba), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuba (compare Fijian duva).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tubə/
• IPA^(key): /tuba/
• Rhymes: -ubə, -bə, -ə

Noun

tuba

1. poison that is made out of root

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ba/

Noun

tuba f

1. (music) tuba

Declension

Declension of tuba

	singular	plural
nominative	tuba	tuby
genitive	tuby	tub
dative	tubie	tubom
accusative	tubę	tuby
instrumental	tubą	tubami
locative	tubie	tubach
vocative	tubo	tuby

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Portuguese

Noun

tuba f (plural tubas)

1. (music) tuba (a large brass musical instrument)