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tuba

See also: Tuba, túba, and tuba'

English

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Etymology 1

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A tuba (sense 1).

Borrowed in the 19th century from French tuba (“tuba”),[1] German Tuba (“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba (literally “bass tuba”), or Italian tuba (“tuba”),[2] from Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”). The Latin term is of obscure ultimate origin, but is possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”); see there.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtjuː.bə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtu.bə/
  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːbə

Noun

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tuba (plural tubas)

  1. A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
    • 1990, Thomas D. Rossing, The Science of Sound, page 230:
      One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.
  2. A large reed stop in organs.
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Etymology 2

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Mosaic showing the Roman tuba (sense 2) and its size in relation to its player, circa 4th century A.D. Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy

Learned borrowing from Latin tuba.

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Particularly: “[3]”

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tuba (plural tubas or tubae)

  1. (anatomy) A tube or tubular organ.
    • 1958, Oliver P[ayne] Pearson, “Phyllotis andium”, in A Taxonomic Revision of the Rodent Genus Phyllotis (University of California Publications in Zoology; volume 56, number 4), Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 437:
      Compared with skulls of darwini, skulls of andium are smaller with shorter tooth rows (fig. 13), have less globular bullae that taper more gradually to the tubae, and a shorter, proportionately narrower rostrum with nasals usually relatively blunt behind and seldom projecting posteriorly far behind the premaxillae (pl. 11).
  2. A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba.
    • 1968, Roger Bragard, Ferdinand J[oseph] de Hen, translated by Bill Hopkins, “Wind Instruments”, in Musical Instruments in Art and History (A Studio Book), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, part II (The Middle Ages), page 60:
      From the eleventh century onwards, the trumpets, which had till then been modelled on the Roman tubae with their straightforward and somewhat rough sound, began to grow longer and thinner as their bells widened.
    • 1986, Raymond Buniak, A Twentieth-Century Treatise on the Trombone‎[1], [Bartlett, Ill.]: Raymond Buniak, →OCLC:
      This depicts trumpet blowing angels gripping instruments, of the Roman tubae variety, halfway down with the right hand, the left hand covering their mouth and the mouthpiece.
    • 1994 April, Stephan Grundy, “Along the Rhine”, in Rhinegold, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, book III (The Death of Athelings), page 451:
      As he drew nearer to Worms, he heard the brassy blare of Roman tubae from the ruddy sandstone walls of the city.

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Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Malay tuba.

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tuba (uncountable)

  1. A Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.

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Etymology 4

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Borrowed from Cebuano tubâ.

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tuba (uncountable)

  1. (Philippines) A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap.

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “tuba (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ “tuba, n.1”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  3. ^ Anthony Baines (1976) “Foundations of Tradition”, in Brass Instruments: Their History and Development, London: Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 63: “On the monuments the tuba (short ‘u’ as in ‘wood’) measures about 120 cm. (4-foot C; Fig. 5, e), expanding gradually to a narrow bell.”

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Cebuano

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

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tubâ (Badlit spelling ᜆᜓᜊ)

  1. a reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap

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  • → English: tuba
  • → Tagalog: tubâ

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tuba (Badlit spelling ᜆᜓᜊ)

  1. to cut down
  2. to harvest banana fruits
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Czech

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tuba f

  1. tube (a cylindrical container)
  2. tuba (a large brass musical instrument)

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Declension of tuba (hard feminine)
singular plural
nominative tuba tuby
genitive tuby tub
dative tubě tubám
accusative tubu tuby
vocative tubo tuby
locative tubě tubách
instrumental tubou tubami

Dutch

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Borrowed from German Tuba.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈty.baː/
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  • Hyphenation: tu‧ba

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tuba m (plural tuba's, diminutive tubaatje n)

  1. tuba (large brass musical instrument)

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Estonian

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From Proto-Finnic *tupa, from Proto-Germanic *stubō. Cognate to Livonian tubā, Finnish tupa, Icelandic stofa, German Stube, Swedish stuga.

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tuba (genitive toa, partitive tuba)

  1. room, chamber

Declension

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Declension of tuba (ÕS type 18e/tuba, b-ø gradation)
singular plural
nominative tuba toad
accusative nom.
gen. toa
genitive tubade
partitive tuba tube
tubasid
illative tuppa
toasse 		tubadesse
inessive toas tubades
elative toast tubadest
allative toale tubadele
adessive toal tubadel
ablative toalt tubadelt
translative toaks tubadeks
terminative toani tubadeni
essive toana tubadena
abessive toata tubadeta
comitative toaga tubadega

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French

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tuba m (plural tubas)

  1. tuba
  2. snorkel
  3. funnel cloud (or tub; see cumulonimbus tuba)

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Galician

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tuba f (plural tubas)

  1. tuba

Hungarian

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Noun

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tuba (plural tubák)

  1. (music) tuba

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative tuba tubák
accusative tubát tubákat
dative tubának tubáknak
instrumental tubával tubákkal
causal-final tubáért tubákért
translative tubává tubákká
terminative tubáig tubákig
essive-formal tubaként tubákként
essive-modal — —
inessive tubában tubákban
superessive tubán tubákon
adessive tubánál tubáknál
illative tubába tubákba
sublative tubára tubákra
allative tubához tubákhoz
elative tubából tubákból
delative tubáról tubákról
ablative tubától tubáktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		tubáé tubáké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		tubáéi tubákéi
Possessive forms of tuba
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tubám tubáim
2nd person sing. tubád tubáid
3rd person sing. tubája tubái
1st person plural tubánk tubáink
2nd person plural tubátok tubáitok
3rd person plural tubájuk tubáik

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  • ([music] tuba): tuba in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • ([folksy] dove; darling): tuba in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • tuba in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtuba/
  • Rhymes: -ba, -a
  • Hyphenation: tu‧ba

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Malay tuba, from Classical Malay توبا (tuba), from Old Malay [script needed] (tūva), from Proto-Malayic *tuba, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubah, from Proto-Austronesian *tubah (“Derris elliptica”).

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tuba (plural tuba-tuba)

  1. poison
    Hypernym: racun
  2. a Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis
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Etymology 2

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From Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”).

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tuba (plural tuba-tuba)

  1. tube
    Synonyms: saluran, tabung, tube
    Synonym: tiub (Standard Malay)
  2. (music) tuba: A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys
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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtu.ba/
  • Rhymes: -uba
  • Hyphenation: tù‧ba

Etymology 1

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From Latin tuba.

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tuba f (plural tube)

  1. (music) tuba
  2. top hat
    Synonym: cilindro
  3. (anatomy) tube
    Synonym: tuba di Falloppio
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Verb

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tuba

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

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  • tuba1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Kituba

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tuba

  1. to say

Latin

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Etymology

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Possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”) with similarities in meaning and form.[1]

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tuba f (genitive tubae); first declension

  1. (literally, music) long trumpet over 1 meter in length, especially war-trumpet
  2. (transferred sense)
    1. signal for war, war
    2. loud sound
      1. sonorous, elevated epic poetry
      2. lofty style of speaking
  3. (figurative) exciter, author, instigator
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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tuba tubae
genitive tubae tubārum
dative tubae tubīs
accusative tubam tubās
ablative tubā tubīs
vocative tuba tubae

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tuba”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 632

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  • “tuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "tuba", 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)
  • tuba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the bugle, trumpet sounds before the general's tent: classicum or tuba canit ad praetorium
  • “tuba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “tuba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Michiel de Vaan (2008) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden: Brill

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *tupa. Related to Finnish tupa.

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tuba

  1. (a small) house

Malay

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Malayic *tuba, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubah, from Proto-Austronesian *tubah.

First attested in the Kota Kapur inscription, 686 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (tūva),

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tuba (Jawi spelling توبا, plural tuba-tuba)

  1. (fishing) fish poison made from plant roots
    Hypernym: racun
  2. a Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.
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Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

  • penuba [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
  • penubaan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
  • menuba [agent focus] (meN-)
  • menubai [agent focus + causative (locative) benefactive] (meN- + -i)
  • dituba [patient focus] (di-)
  • ditubai [patient focus + causative (locative) benefactive] (di- + -i)

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

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Etymology 2

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From Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”), via English tuba.

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tuba (plural duplication)

  1. (music) tuba: A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.

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Polish

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Learned borrowing from Latin tuba.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtu.ba/
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  • Rhymes: -uba
  • Syllabification: tu‧ba

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tuba f (diminutive tubka)

  1. tube (cylindrical container)
  2. tuba (large brass musical instrument)
  3. tube scarf (shawl in which the ends are stitched together, interposed several times around the neck when put on in order to surround this part of the body with a thick and high layer of knitted or woven fabric to protect against the cold)
    Synonym: komin
    Hypernym: szal

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Declension of tuba
singular plural
nominative tuba tuby
genitive tuby tub
dative tubie tubom
accusative tubę tuby
instrumental tubą tubami
locative tubie tubach
vocative tubo tuby

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  • tuba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • tuba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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From Latin tuba.

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  • Rhymes: -ubɐ
  • Hyphenation: tu‧ba

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tuba f (plural tubas)

  1. (music) tuba (a large brass musical instrument)

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From Tagalog tuba or Cebuano tuba.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtuba/ [ˈt̪u.β̞a]
  • Rhymes: -uba
  • Syllabification: tu‧ba

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tuba f (uncountable)

  1. (Mexico, Philippines) coconut wine made from sweet coconut sap

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Cebuano tubâ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuba. First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522.

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tubâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊ)

  1. tubâ (Filipino alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm trees)
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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubah, from Proto-Austronesian *tubah (“Derris elliptica”).

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tuba (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊ)

  1. purging croton (a kind of croton plant the seeds of which is used to make croton oil)
  2. croton oil
  3. fish poison made from this plant
  4. act of poisoning fish (with such a poison)
    Synonym: pagtuba
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Ternate

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tuba

  1. (stative) to be piled

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Conjugation of tuba
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person totuba fotuba mituba
2nd person notuba nituba
3rd
person 		masculine otuba ituba
yotuba (archaic)
feminine motuba
neuter ituba

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