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

Galician

Etymology

From 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)
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii

   Synonyms: bocoi, pipa

2. industrial vat (large tub)

Derived terms

• cubeta

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cuba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cuba”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cuba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cuba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ba/
• Rhymes: -uba
• Hyphenation: cù‧ba

Adjective

cuba

1. feminine singular of cubo

Noun

cuba f (plural cube)

1. cupola

Anagrams

• buca

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.

Latin

Verb

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

Malay

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃu.bä/
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃu.bə/
• (Kuching) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃo.ba/
• Rhymes: -a

Verb

cuba (Jawi spelling چوبا)

1. to try; to attempt to do.
2. used to politely order someone to do a task.

Alternative forms

• coba: nonstandard Malay, standard Indonesian

Further reading

• “cuba” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ba/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bɐ/ [ˈku.βɐ]

• Audio (Portugal):

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• Homophone: Cuba

Noun

cuba f (plural cubas)

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

   Synonyms: tina, tonel

2. industrial vat (large tub)

   Synonym: tanque

Etymology 2

Verb

cuba

1. inflection of cubar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish cuba, from Latin cūpa, from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa, via the Latin variant cŭppa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuba/ [ˈku.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: cu‧ba

Noun

cuba f (plural cubas)

1. barrel

   Synonyms: barril, pipa

Derived terms

• borracho como una cuba
• como una cuba

 

Further reading

• “cuba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28