kubo
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish cubo. False cognate of Tagalog kubo, which is semantically and phonetically influenced by the Spanish, but is from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu (and cognate with Indonesian and Malay kubu).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ku‧bo
Adjective edit
kubo
Noun edit
kubo
Anagrams edit
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cubus, French cube, Italian cubo, English cube, Russian куб (kub) and German Kubus. Ultimately from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kubo (accusative singular kubon, plural kuboj, accusative plural kubojn)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Ido: kubo
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
kubo
Sop edit
Noun edit
kubo
Further reading edit
- Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975), page 602
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈkubo/, [ˈku.bo]
- Rhymes: -ubo
- Syllabification: ku‧bo
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Philippine *kubu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu. Cognate with Ilocano kubo, Indonesian kubu and Malay kubu. Etymologically unrelated to Spanish cubo (“cube”), but the "cube" sense has mixed into the original meaning.
Noun edit
kubo (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜊᜓ)
- hut; shack; shanty (especially a cube-shaped, one-room, rural hut with a nipa or cogon grass roof and bamboo walls)
- Synonyms: dampa, barong-barong, kubakob, dalungdong
Derived terms edit
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Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Spanish cubo (“cube”), from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Noun edit
kubo (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜊᜓ) (mathematics)
- cube (solid with six equal square sides)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “kubo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018