tubo

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh, compare Malay tebu.

tubo

1. sugar cane

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtubo/
• Syllabification: tu‧bo
• Rhymes: -ubo

tubo m (plural tubos)

1. tube

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “tubo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tubuq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubuq, from Proto-Austronesian *Cubuq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuboʔ/ [ˈt̪u.boʔ]
• Hyphenation: tu‧bo

tubò (Badlit spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)

1. to grow
2. to profit; to gain profit
3. to pay the interest in order to renew or extend a loan

tubò (Badlit spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)

1. the growth of a person, plant, etc.
2. (finance) interest

   Synonym: interes

3. (accounting, economics) profit

First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522. Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh, from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS. Compare Malay tebu.

• IPA^(key): /tuˈbo/ [t̪ʊˈbo]
• Hyphenation: tu‧bo

tubó (Badlit spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)

1. sugar cane

Borrowed from Spanish tubo, from Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtubo/ [ˈt̪u.bo]
• Hyphenation: tu‧bo

túbo (Badlit spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)

1. pipe (rigid tube)
2. (anatomy) Fallopian tube
3. (anatomy, humorous) penis

   Synonym: utin

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

• buot, buto, tuob

Borrowed from Spanish tubo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtubo/ [ˈtu.bo]
• Hyphenation: tu‧bo

túbo (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)

1. a pipe, a tube (for water)

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh, from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS.

• IPA^(key): /tuˈbo/ [tuˈbo]
• Hyphenation: tu‧bo

tubó (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)

1. sugarcane

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tubuq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubuq, from Proto-Austronesian *Cubuq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuboʔ/ [ˈtu.boʔ]
• Hyphenation: tu‧bo

tubò (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)

1. growth, sprouting

   Synonym: tambo

2. mushroom

   Synonym: kurakding

3. (finance) interest

   Synonym: interes

Borrowed from Italian tubo and English tube.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtubo/

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• Rhymes: -ubo
• Syllabification: tu‧bo

tubo (accusative singular tubon, plural tuboj, accusative plural tubojn)

1. tube

• fumtubo

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtubo/ [ˈt̪u.β̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Hyphenation: tu‧bo

tubo m (plural tubos)

1. tube, pipe (open at both ends)
2. tube (container closed at one end)

• tubular

• “tubo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

tubo (plural tubos)

1. tube

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.bo/
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Hyphenation: tù‧bo

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

tubo m (plural tubi)

1. tube
2. pipe
3. (derogatory, vulgar) a male homosexual

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tubo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tubare

tubō

1. dative/ablative singular of tubus

• tübu

From Italian tubo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtybu/

tubo m (plural tubo)

1. tube

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

• Rhymes: -ubu
• Hyphenation: tu‧bo

tubo m (plural tubos)

1. tube
2. pipe
3. (surfing) tube

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tubo.

• “tubo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “tubo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “tubo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtubo/ [ˈt̪u.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Syllabification: tu‧bo
• Homophone: tuvo

tubo m (plural tubos)

1. tube

   Synonym: canuto

2. (Latin America) receiver (on a telephone)

• “tubo”, 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

From Proto-Philippine *tubuq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubuq (cf. Fijian tubu (“to grow”), Javanese ꦠꦸꦮꦸꦃ (tuwuh, “to grow”), Māori tupu (“to grow”), Malay tubuh (“body”) / tumbuh (“to grow”)), from Proto-Austronesian *Cubuq (cf. Paiwan cuvuq (“sprout”)).

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtuboʔ/ [ˈt̪uː.boʔ] (“sprout; growth; native; (finance) interest; profit”, noun; “native (of a person)”, adjective)
    • Rhymes: -uboʔ
  • IPA^(key): /tuˈboʔ/ [t̪ʊˈboʔ] (“growing, germinating”, adjective)
    • Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: tu‧bo

tubò (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)

1. sprout; shoot

   Synonyms: supling, supang, talbos, usbong, suloy

2. germination; growth (of a seed)

   Synonyms: pagtubo, sibol, pagsibol, supang, pagsupang

3. native of a place
4. (finance) interest

   Synonyms: interes, gana, ganansiya

5. profit

   Synonym: kita

6. (figurative) new growth

   Synonyms: supang, suloy

tubò (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)

1. native of a place (of a person)

tubô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)

1. already growing or germinating (of seeds)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh (cf. Chamorro tupu, Kapampangan atbu, Sambali tabo, Malay tebu, Tausug tubu), from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS (cf. Kavalan tbus, Paiwan tjevus).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tuˈbo/ [t̪ʊˈbo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: tu‧bo

tubó (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)

1. sugar cane

Borrowed from Spanish tubo, from Latin tubus.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtubo/ [ˈt̪uː.bo]
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Syllabification: tu‧bo

tubo (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)

1. tube; pipe
2. tube (of toothpaste, paint, etc.)
3. glass bulb or tube (used to protect the light of a lamp)

   Synonym: embudo

• “tubo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Cubuq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tebuS”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• but-o, buto, buot

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu.bo]

tubo

1. (transitive) to prod fruit

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu.bo]

tubo

1. thick billowing smoke

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