cuba

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡suba/

cuba

1. indefinite nominative/accusative plural of cub
2. inflection of cubë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

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

cuba

1. third-person singular past historic of cuber

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuba/ [ˈku.β̞ɐ]
• Rhymes: -uba
• Hyphenation: cu‧ba

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)

• cubeta

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ba/
• Rhymes: -uba
• Hyphenation: cù‧ba

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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cuba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Baku, /a/-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃuba/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ba]

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃubə/ [ˈt͡ʃu.bə]

• (Kuching) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoba/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ba]
• Rhymes: -a

cuba (Jawi spelling چوبا)

1. to try; to attempt to do.
2. used to politely order someone to do a task.

• coba (nonstandard Malay, Indonesian)

• "cuba" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Inherited from Latin cūpa, from Proto-Indo-European *kewp-. Doublet of copa and copo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuba/
• Rhymes: -uba
• Hyphenation: cu‧ba

cuba f (plural cubas)

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

   Synonym: pipa

   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii

• Fala: cuba
• Galician: cuba
• Portuguese: cuba

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cuba”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “cuba”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cuba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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

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• Homophone: Cuba
• Hyphenation: cu‧ba

cuba f (plural cubas)

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

   Synonyms: tina, tonel

2. industrial vat (large tub)

   Synonym: tanque

cuba

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

• “cuba”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cuba”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish cuba, from Latin cūpa, from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa, via the Latin variant cŭppa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuba/ [ˈku.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: cu‧ba

cuba f (plural cubas)

1. barrel

   Synonyms: barril, pipa

• “cuba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025