uba

See also: Ubá

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *upa, borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (Latvian pupa). Cognate with Livonian pubā. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

uba (genitive oa, partitive uba)

1. bean

Declension

Inflection of uba (ÕS type 18e/tuba, b-ø gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	uba	oad
accusative	oa	oad
genitive	oa	ubade
partitive	uba	ube ubasid
illative	uppa oasse	ubadesse
inessive	oas	ubades
elative	oast	ubadest
allative	oale	ubadele
adessive	oal	ubadel
ablative	oalt	ubadelt
translative	oaks	ubadeks
terminative	oani	ubadeni
essive	oana	ubadena
abessive	oata	ubadeta
comitative	oaga	ubadega

Derived terms

• kohviuba

Further reading

• uba in Sõnaveeb

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Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔù.báː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔʊ̀.báː]

Noun

ùbā m (plural ùbànnī, possessed form ùban)

1. father
2. head, leader, patron

Coordinate terms

• uwā

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Laz

Noun

uba (Atina, Vizha, Artasheni, Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi)

1. Latin spelling of უბა (uba)

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Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Noun

uba f (plural ubas)

1. grape

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Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔuβ̞a/, /ˈtuβ̞a/

Noun

uba (t-, t-)

1. one's male parent, father
2. brother of one's father, paternal uncle
3. cousin of one's father

Usage notes

• The stem uba could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. The absolute form tuba was used whenever the noun was not possessed.

References

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

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Ternate

Etymology

From Malay ubat (“gunpowder”). Compare with Indonesian obat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.ba/

Noun

uba

1. gunpowder

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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West Makian

Etymology

Possibly from an older ubat (if not an error), recorded in van der Crab's De Moluksche Eilanden's wordlist (as oebat).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.ba/

Verb

uba

1. (transitive) to carry

Conjugation

Conjugation of uba (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		touba	mouba	auba
2nd person		nouba	fouba
3rd person	inanimate	iuba	douba
	animate
imperative		nuuba, uba	fuuba, uba

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics