cuba
French
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ky.ba/
- Homophones: cubas, cubât
Verb
editcuba
- third-person singular past historic of cuber
Galician
editEtymology
editFrom 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, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcuba f (plural cubas)
- cask (large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks)
- 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
- 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:
- industrial vat (large tub)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cuba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cuba”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- 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
Italian
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editcuba
Noun
editcuba f (plural cube)
Anagrams
editKikuyu
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Swahili chupa.[1][2]
Pronunciation
edit- 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]
Noun
editcuba class 14 (plural macuba)[1](diminutive gacuba) or cuba class 9/10 (plural cuba)[1]
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “cuba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 72. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Iribemwangi, P. I (2016). "Kikuyu phonology and orthography: Any hope for continuity of indigenous languages?", p. 246. In G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis and K. K. Chakravarty (eds.) The Language Loss of the Indigenous. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 239–253. →ISBN
- ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 64, 227.
- ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
- Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 18.
Latin
editVerb
editcubā
References
edit- cuba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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
Malay
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
edit- (Baku) IPA(key): /t͡ʃu.bä/
- (Johor-Riau) IPA(key): /t͡ʃu.bə/
- (Kuching) IPA(key): /t͡ʃo.ba/
- Rhymes: -a
Verb
editcuba (Jawi spelling چوبا)
Alternative forms
editFurther reading
edit- “cuba” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Portuguese
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Galician-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.
Pronunciation
edit
Noun
editcuba f (plural cubas)
- cask (large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks)
- industrial vat (large tub)
- Synonym: tanque
Etymology 2
editVerb
editcuba
- inflection of cubar:
Spanish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Spanish cuba, from Latin cūpa, from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa, via the Latin variant cŭppa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcuba f (plural cubas)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “cuba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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