tobo

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).^[1]

Akin to Spanish tobillo ("ankle", anciently "anklebone").

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoβo̝/

tobo m (plural tobos, feminine toba, feminine plural tobas)

1. burrow, den

   Synonyms: toco, pala

   • 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 203:

     seique val máis estar dez anos nun bo presidio que dez días nesa cadea de Pontevedra, nese edificio triste, feo, cheirento, apestado, oscuro, inmundo que máis ben pode chamarse cortello ou tobo para feras que non casa para ter os homes

     I know that it is better to expend 10 years in a good colonial fort than ten days in that jail of Pontevedra, that sad, ugly, smelly, plagued, dark, filthy building, that could better be called a pigsty or a den for beasts than a house for men

• toco

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tobo”, 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), “tobo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tobo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From tubo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh. Compare Malay tebu.

tobo

1. sugar cane

From tubo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubuq. Compare Malay tumbuh.

tobo

1. to grow

• IPA^(key): /ˈtobo/
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: to‧bo

tobo m (plural tobos)

1. (Venezuela) bucket or container

   tobo de la basura ― garbage can, dustbin

From -toboa.

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tobo (ma class, plural matobo)

1. hole

• IPA^(key): /ˈto.bo/

tobo

1. (intransitive) to swim

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

Compare Ternate tobo (“to swim”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪o.bo/

tobo

1. (intransitive) to bathe
2. (transitive) to bathe

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics