kubo

Borrowed from Spanish cubo. False cognate of Tagalog kubo, which is semantically and phonetically influenced by the Spanish, but is from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu (and cognate with Indonesian and Malay kubu).

• Hyphenation: ku‧bo

kubo

1. having stooped shoulders

kubo

1. cube

• buko, buok, kuob, ukob

Borrowed from Latin cubus, French cube, Italian cubo, English cube, Russian куб (kub) and German Kubus. Ultimately from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

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• Rhymes: -ubo
• Hyphenation: ku‧bo

• Homophone: Kubo

kubo (accusative singular kubon, plural kuboj, accusative plural kubojn)

1. (geometry) cube

• ĵetkubo (“die”)
• kuba (“cubical”)
• kube (“cubically”)
• kubigi (“to cube (a number)”)

• → Ido: kubo

kubo

1. Rōmaji transcription of くぼ

kubo

1. arm

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975), page 602

• cobo, cubo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkubo/
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Syllabification: ku‧bo

From Proto-Philippine *kubu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu. Cognate with Ilocano kubo, Indonesian kubu and Malay kubu. Etymologically unrelated to Spanish cubo (“cube”), but the "cube" sense has mixed into the original meaning.

kubo (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜊᜓ)

1. hut; shack; shanty (especially a cube-shaped, one-room, rural hut with a nipa or cogon grass roof and bamboo walls)

   Synonyms: dampa, barong-barong, kubakob, dalungdong

Borrowed from Spanish cubo (“cube”), from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

kubo (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜊᜓ) (mathematics)

1. cube (solid with six equal square sides)

• “kubo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• buko