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French
Pronunciation
Verb
cuba
- 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
Noun
cuba f (plural cubas)
- 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
- industrial vat (large tub)
Derived terms
References
- “cuba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “cuba” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cuba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cuba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cuba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈku.ba/
- Rhymes: -uba
- Hyphenation: cù‧ba
Adjective
cuba
- feminine singular of cubo
Noun
cuba f (plural cube)
- cupola
Anagrams
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Swahili chupa.
Pronunciation
- 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.
- (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)
- bottle
- Synonym: mũcuba
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “cuba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 72. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ 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
- ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 64, 227.
- ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ 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
Verb
cubā
- 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
Verb
cuba (Jawi spelling چوبا)
- to try; to attempt to do.
- used to politely order someone to do a task.
Alternative forms
Further reading
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
Noun
cuba f (plural cubas)
- cask (large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks)
- Synonyms: tina, tonel
- industrial vat (large tub)
- Synonym: tanque
Etymology 2
Verb
cuba
- inflection of cubar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- 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/
- Rhymes: -uba
- Syllabification: cu‧ba
Noun
cuba f (plural cubas)
- barrel
- Synonyms: barril, pipa
Derived terms
Further reading