cuba

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

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cuba

  1. third-person singular past historic of cuber

Galician

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Etymology

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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.

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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)

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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cuba

  1. feminine singular of cubo

Noun

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cuba f (plural cube)

  1. cupola

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Swahili chupa.[1][2]

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  • IPA(key): /ʃùːβàꜜ/, /ɕùːβàꜜ/
This u is pronounced long.[3][1]
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.[4] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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cuba class 14 (plural macuba)[1](diminutive gacuba) or cuba class 9/10 (plural cuba)[1]

  1. bottle
    Synonym: mũcuba

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “cuba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 72. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Iribemwangi, P. I (2016). "Kikuyu phonology and orthography: Any hope for continuity of indigenous languages?", p. 246. In G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis and K. K. Chakravarty (eds.) The Language Loss of the Indigenous. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 239–253. →ISBN
  3. ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 64, 227.
  4. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  5. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
  • Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 18.

Latin

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cubā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of cubō

References

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  • 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

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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cuba (Jawi spelling چوبا)

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

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Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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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.

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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

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Verb

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cuba

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

Spanish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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cuba f (plural cubas)

  1. barrel
    Synonyms: barril, pipa

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