cuba

• IPA^(key): /ky.ba/
• Homophones: cubas, cubât

cuba

1. third-person singular past historic of cuber

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cuba (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cūpa (“cask; vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuβa̝/

cuba f (plural cubas)

1. cask (large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks)

   Synonyms: bocoi, pipa

2. industrial vat (large tub)

• “cuba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cuba” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cuba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cuba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cuba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• Rhymes: -uba

cuba

1. feminine singular of cubo

cuba f (plural cube)

1. cupola

• buca

• cuuba

Borrowed from Swahili chupa.[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ʃùːβàꜜ/, /ɕùːβàꜜ/

This u is pronounced long.[3][1]

As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[4] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[5]

cuba class 14 (plural macuba)[1](diminutive gacuba) or cuba class 9/10 (plural cuba)[1]

1. bottle

   Synonym: mũcuba

• Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 18.

cubā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cubō

• cuba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cuba in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Old Portuguese cuba, from Latin cūpa (“cask; vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkuβɐ/

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• Homophone: Cuba

cuba f (plural cubas)

1. cask (large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks)
2. industrial vat (large tub)

• (cask): tina, tonel
• (vat): tanque

From Old Spanish [Term?], from Latin cupa, from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant.

cuba f (plural cubas)

1. barrel

• barril
• pipa

• borracho como una cuba