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English

A tuba.

Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtjuː.bə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtu.bə/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːbə

Noun

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.

Noun

tuba (plural tubas or tubae)

  1. (anatomy) A tube or tubular organ.
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay tuba.

Noun

tuba (uncountable)

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

Further reading

Etymology 3

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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From Cebuano tuba.

Noun

tuba (plural tubas)

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

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

tubâ

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

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Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

tuba

  1. to cut down
  2. to harvest banana fruits
Quotations

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

tuba f

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

Declension

Declension of tuba (hard feminine)
singular plural
nominative tuba tuby
genitive tuby tub
dative tubě tubám
accusative tubu tuby
vocative tubo tuby
locative tubě tubách
instrumental tubou tubami

Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

tuba (genitive toa, partitive tuba)

  1. room, chamber

Declension

Declension of tuba (ÕS type 18e/tuba, b-ø gradation)
singular plural
nominative tuba toad
accusative nom.
gen. toa
genitive tubade
partitive tuba tube
tubasid
illative tuppa
toasse 		tubadesse
inessive toas tubades
elative toast tubadest
allative toale tubadele
adessive toal tubadel
ablative toalt tubadelt
translative toaks tubadeks
terminative toani tubadeni
essive toana tubadena
abessive toata tubadeta
comitative toaga tubadega

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French

Pronunciation

Noun

tuba m (plural tubas)

  1. tuba
  2. snorkel

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Galician

Noun

tuba f (plural tubas)

  1. tuba

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

Noun

tuba (plural tubák)

  1. (music) tuba

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative tuba tubák
accusative tubát tubákat
dative tubának tubáknak
instrumental tubával tubákkal
causal-final tubáért tubákért
translative tubává tubákká
terminative tubáig tubákig
essive-formal tubaként tubákként
essive-modal — —
inessive tubában tubákban
superessive tubán tubákon
adessive tubánál tubáknál
illative tubába tubákba
sublative tubára tubákra
allative tubához tubákhoz
elative tubából tubákból
delative tubáról tubákról
ablative tubától tubáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		tubáé tubáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		tubáéi tubákéi
Possessive forms of tuba
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tubám tubáim
2nd person sing. tubád tubáid
3rd person sing. tubája tubái
1st person plural tubánk tubáink
2nd person plural tubátok tubáitok
3rd person plural tubájuk tubáik

Further reading

  • ( 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 Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

tuba (plural tuba-tuba, first-person possessive tubaku, second-person possessive tubamu, third-person possessive tubanya)

  1. poison
    Hypernym: racun
  2. a Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

tuba (plural tuba-tuba, first-person possessive tubaku, second-person possessive tubamu, third-person possessive tubanya)

  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.
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Further reading

Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Latin tuba.

Noun

tuba f (plural tube)

  1. (music) tuba
  2. top hat
    Synonym: cilindro
  3. (anatomy) tube
    Synonym: tuba di Falloppio
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Etymology 2

Verb

tuba

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

Kituba

Verb

tuba

  1. to say

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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
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Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tuba tubae
Genitive tubae tubārum
Dative tubae tubīs
Accusative tubam tubās
Ablative tubā tubīs
Vocative tuba tubae

Derived terms

Descendants

Descendants of tuba in other languages
  • → English: tuba
  • → French: tuba
  • → Galician: tuba
  • → Italian: tuba
  • → Russian: ту́ба (túba)

References

  • “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

Livonian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

tuba

  1. (a small) house

Malay

Etymology 1

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),

Pronunciation

Noun

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.
Derived terms
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Regular affixed derivations:

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

Descendants

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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.

Further reading

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tubā.

Pronunciation

Noun

tuba f (diminutive tubka)

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

Declension

Declension of tuba
singular plural
nominative tuba tuby
genitive tuby tub
dative tubie tubom
accusative tubę tuby
instrumental tubą tubami
locative tubie tubach
vocative tubo tuby

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin tuba.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -ubɐ
  • Hyphenation: tu‧ba

Noun

tuba f (plural tubas)

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

Spanish

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Etymology

From Tagalog tuba or Cebuano tuba.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tuba f (uncountable)

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

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tuˈbaʔ/,
  • Hyphenation: tu‧ba

Noun

tubâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊ)

  1. tubâ (Filipino alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm trees)
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Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtuba/,
  • Hyphenation: tu‧ba

Noun

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
Derived terms

Tausug

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuba.

Noun

tuba

  1. wine (made from plants, e.g. rice)

Ternate

Pronunciation

Verb

tuba

  1. (stative) to be piled

Conjugation

Conjugation of tuba
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totuba fotuba mituba
2nd notuba nituba
3rd Masculine otuba ituba, yotuba†
Feminine motuba
Neuter ituba
† - archaic

References

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