uba

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See also: Ubá

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *upa, borrowed from Proto-Baltic (Latvian pupa). Cognate with Livonian pubā. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

uba (genitive oa, partitive uba)

  1. bean

Declension

Declension of uba (ÕS type 18e/tuba, b-ø gradation)
singular plural
nominative uba oad
accusative nom.
gen. oa
genitive ubade
partitive uba ube
ubasid
illative uppa
oasse 		ubadesse
inessive oas ubades
elative oast ubadest
allative oale ubadele
adessive oal ubadel
ablative oalt ubadelt
translative oaks ubadeks
terminative oani ubadeni
essive oana ubadena
abessive oata ubadeta
comitative oaga ubadega

Derived terms

Further reading

Hausa

Pronunciation

Noun

ùbā m (plural ùbànnī, possessed form ùban)

  1. father
  2. head, leader, patron

Coordinate terms

Laz

Noun

uba (Atina, Vizha, Artasheni, Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi)

  1. Latin spelling of უბა (uba)

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Noun

uba f (plural ubas)

  1. grape

Nheengatu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi uba, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tup (“father”), from Proto-Tupian *t͡sup (“father”).

Noun

uba (IIb class pluriform, absolute tuba, R1 ruba, R2 tuba)

  1. (archaic) dad, father (one's male parent)
    Synonym: paya

References

  1. ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
  2. ^ Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “uba”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 781

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tup (“father”), from Proto-Tupian *t͡sup (“father”).

Cognate with Guaraní túva.

Noun

uba (IIb class pluriform, absolute tuba, R1 ruba, R2 tuba) (possessable)

  1. dad, father (one's male parent)
    Coordinate term: sy
  2. paternal uncle (brother of one's father)
  3. first cousin once removed (cousin of one's father)
Descendants
  • Nheengatu: uba

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔɨβ (“thigh”), from Proto-Tupian *kʔɨp (“leg”).

Cognate with Guaraní uvã.

Noun

uba (possessable)

  1. thigh
    Synonym: anangûyra

Etymology 3

Noun

uba (possessable)

  1. roe (fish eggs)

Etymology 4

Noun

uba (possessable)

  1. ash (solid remains of a fire)
    Synonym: tanimbuka

Related terms

References

  1. ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
  2. ^ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB

Further reading

Ternate

Etymology

From Malay ubat (“gunpowder”). Compare with Indonesian obat.

Pronunciation

Noun

uba

  1. gunpowder

References

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

West Makian

Etymology

Possibly from an older ubat (if not an error), recorded in van der Crab's De Moluksche Eilanden's wordlist (as oebat).

Pronunciation

Verb

uba

  1. (transitive) to carry

Conjugation

Conjugation of uba (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person touba mouba auba
2nd person nouba fouba
3rd person inanimate iuba douba
animate
imperative nuuba, uba fuuba, uba

References

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