tuba

From Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”), first borrowed as a historic term in the 18th century. The name of the modern instrument was borrowed in the 19th century from German Tuba (“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba (literally “bass tuba”), from the same Latin source. The Latin term is of obscure ultimate origin, but is possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”), see there.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuː.bə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.bə/

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• Rhymes: -uːbə

tuba (plural tubas)

1. A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
   • 1990, Thomas D. Rossing, The Science of Sound, page 230:

     One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.

2. A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba.
3. A large reed stop in organs.

tuba (plural tubas or tubae)

1. (anatomy) A tube or tubular organ.

• grunt-horn

• euphonium, sousaphone
• tube
• tubular
• corno basso (keyed bass horn)
• bombardon
• ophicleide
• valve-ophicleide
• bucina
• cornu

• “tuba”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• tuba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Roman tuba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Malay tuba.

tuba (uncountable)

1. A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.

• Derris on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Derris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Derris on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Tubâ

Wikipedia

From Cebuano tuba.

tuba (plural tubas)

1. A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap.

• Batu, Taub, abut, batu, buat, buta, tabu

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuba. First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522.

• Hyphenation: tu‧bâ
• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /tʊˈbaʔ/

tubâ

1. a reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap

• bahal
• bahalina

• Hyphenation: tu‧ba
• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /tʊˈba/

tuba

1. to cut down
2. to harvest banana fruits

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:tuba.

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tuba f

1. tube (a cylindrical container)
2. tuba (a large brass musical instrument)

From Proto-Finnic *tupa, from Proto-Germanic *stubō. Cognate to Livonian tubā, Finnish tupa, Icelandic stofa, German Stube, Swedish stuga.

tuba (genitive toa, partitive tuba)

1. room, chamber

• IPA^(key): /ty.ba/

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tuba m (plural tubas)

1. tuba
2. snorkel

• “tuba”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• buta

tuba f (plural tubas)

1. tuba

Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:

Tuba

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• Hyphenation: tu‧ba
• Rhymes: -bɒ

tuba (plural tubák)

1. (music) tuba

• ( tuba): tuba in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• ( dove; darling): tuba in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• tuba in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

tuba

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtuba/
• Rhymes: -ba, -a
• Hyphenation: tu‧ba

Inherited from Malay tuba, from Classical Malay توبا (tuba), from Old Malay (tūva), from Proto-Malayic *tuba, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubah, from Proto-Austronesian *tubah (“Derris elliptica”).

tuba (plural tuba-tuba)

1. poison

   Hypernym: racun

2. a Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.

From Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”).

tuba (plural tuba-tuba)

1. tube

   Synonyms: saluran, tabung, tube

   Synonym: tiub (Standard Malay)

2. (music) tuba: A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.

• “tuba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

tuba

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ba/
• Rhymes: -uba
• Hyphenation: tù‧ba

From Latin tuba.

tuba f (plural tube)

1. (music) tuba
2. top hat

   Synonym: cilindro

3. (anatomy) tube

   Synonym: tuba di Falloppio

• tubarico

• tuba bassa
• tuba contrabbassa
• tuba tenore
• tuba grave
• tuba wagneriana

• elicone
• sousaphone
• bombardone
• euphonium

tuba

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

• tuba¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• tabù

tuba

1. to say

Possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”) with similarities in meaning and form.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ba/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ba/,

tuba f (genitive tubae); first declension

1. (literally, music) long trumpet over 1 meter in length, especially war-trumpet
2. (transferred sense)
   1. signal for war, war
   2. loud sound
      1. sonorous, elevated epic poetry
      2. lofty style of speaking
3. (figurative) exciter, author, instigator

This entry needs quotations to illustrate usage. If you come across any interesting, durably archived quotes then please add them!

First-declension noun.

• tūbārius
• tubicen
• tubilustrium
• tubula
• tubus

• “tuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tuba 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)
• tuba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the bugle, trumpet sounds before the general's tent: classicum or tuba canit ad praetorium
    
• “tuba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tuba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Michiel de Vaan (2008) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden: Brill

• (Courland) tubā

From Proto-Finnic *tupa. Related to Finnish tupa.

tuba

1. (a small) house

From Proto-Malayic *tuba, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubah, from Proto-Austronesian *tubah.

First attested in the Kota Kapur inscription, 686 AD, as Old Malay (tūva),

• IPA^(key): /tuba/
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): ,
• Rhymes: -uba, -ba, -a

tuba (Jawi spelling توبا, plural tuba-tuba, informal 1st possessive tubaku, 2nd possessive tubamu, 3rd possessive tubanya)

1. (fishing) fish poison made from plant roots

   Hypernym: racun

2. a Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.

• Indonesian: tuba
• → English: tuba

From Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”), via English tuba.

• IPA^(key): /tuba/
• Rhymes: -uba, -ba, -a

tuba (plural duplication, informal 1st possessive tubaku, 2nd possessive tubamu, 3rd possessive tubanya)

1. (music) tuba: A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.

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

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

tuba

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Learned borrowing from Latin tuba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ba/

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• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: tu‧ba

tuba f (diminutive tubka)

1. tube (cylindrical container)
2. tuba (large brass musical instrument)
3. tube scarf (shawl in which the ends are stitched together, interposed several times around the neck when put on in order to surround this part of the body with a thick and high layer of knitted or woven fabric to protect against the cold)

   Synonym: komin

   Hypernym: szal

• tuba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tuba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin tuba.

• Rhymes: -ubɐ
• Hyphenation: tu‧ba

tuba f (plural tubas)

1. (music) tuba (a large brass musical instrument)

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Tuba (bebida)

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From Tagalog tuba or Cebuano tuba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuba/
• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: tu‧ba

tuba f (uncountable)

1. (Mexico, Philippines) coconut wine made from sweet coconut sap

• “tuba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tuˈbaʔ/
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: tu‧ba

tubâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊ)

1. tubâ (Filipino alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm trees)

• tubaan

• lambanog

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubah, from Proto-Austronesian *tubah (“Derris elliptica”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtuba/
• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: tu‧ba

tuba (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊ)

1. purging croton (a kind of croton plant the seeds of which is used to make croton oil)
2. croton oil
3. fish poison made from this plant
4. act of poisoning fish (with such a poison)

   Synonym: pagtuba

• utab

• IPA^(key):

tuba

1. (stative) to be piled

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