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4-letter words (4 found)

ABUT,BUAT,TABU,TUBA,

3-letter words (6 found)

BAT,BUT,TAB,TAU,TUB,UTA,

2-letter words (5 found)

AB,AT,BA,TA,UT,

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tuba utba tbua btua ubta buta tuab utab taub atub uatb autb tbau btau tabu atbu batu abtu ubat buat uabt aubt baut abut

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Definitions and meaning of tuba

tuba

Etymology 1

From Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”), first borrowed as a historic term in the 18th century. The name of the modern instrument was borrowed in the 19th century from German Tuba (“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba (literally “bass tuba”), from the same Latin source. The Latin term is of obscure ultimate origin, but is possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”), see there.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.
  2. A type of Roman military trumpet, distinct from the modern tuba.
  3. A large reed stop in organs.

Noun

tuba (plural tubas or tubae)

  1. (anatomy) A tube or tubular organ.
Synonyms
  • grunt-horn
Derived terms
Translations

See also

  • euphonium, sousaphone
  • tube
  • tubular
  • corno basso (keyed bass horn)
  • bombardon
  • ophicleide
  • valve-ophicleide
  • bucina
  • cornu

Further reading

  • “tuba”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • tuba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Roman tuba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay tuba.

Noun

tuba (uncountable)

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

Further reading

  • Derris on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Derris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Derris on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 3

From Cebuano tuba.

Noun

tuba (plural tubas)

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

Anagrams

  • Batu, Taub, abut, batu, buat, buta, tabu

Cebuano

Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tu‧bâ
  • (General Cebuano) IPA(key): /tʊˈbaʔ/

Noun

tubâ

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

See also

  • bahal
  • bahalina

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tu‧ba
  • (General Cebuano) IPA(key): /tʊˈba/

Verb

tuba

  1. to cut down
  2. to harvest banana fruits
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:tuba.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtuba]

Noun

tuba f

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

Declension

Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

tuba (genitive toa, partitive tuba)

  1. room, chamber

Declension

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ty.ba/

Noun

tuba m (plural tubas)

  1. tuba
  2. snorkel

Further reading

  • “tuba”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • buta

Galician

Noun

tuba f (plural tubas)

  1. tuba

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtubɒ]
  • Hyphenation: tu‧ba
  • Rhymes: -bɒ

Noun

tuba (plural tubák)

  1. (music) tuba

Declension

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

tuba (plural tuba-tuba, first-person possessive tubaku, second-person possessive tubamu, third-person possessive tubanya)

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

tuba (plural tuba-tuba, first-person possessive tubaku, second-person possessive tubamu, third-person possessive tubanya)

  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.
Related terms

Further reading

  • “tuba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Latin tuba.

Noun

tuba f (plural tube)

  1. (music) tuba
  2. top hat
    Synonym: cilindro
  3. (anatomy) tube
    Synonym: tuba di Falloppio
Derived terms
  • tubarico
Derived terms
  • tuba bassa
  • tuba contrabbassa
  • tuba tenore
  • tuba grave
  • tuba wagneriana
See also
  • elicone
  • sousaphone
  • bombardone
  • euphonium

Etymology 2

Verb

tuba

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • tabù

Kituba

Verb

tuba

  1. to say

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.ba/, [ˈt̪ʊbä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.ba/, [ˈt̪uːbä]

Noun

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

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • tūbārius
  • tubicen
  • tubilustrium
  • tubula
  • tubus

Descendants

References

  • “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “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

Livonian

Alternative forms

  • (Courland) tubā

Etymology

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

Noun

tuba

  1. (a small) house

Malay

Etymology 1

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),

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tuba/
  • (Johor-Riau) IPA(key): [ˈtuba], [ˈtubə]
  • Rhymes: -uba, -ba, -a

Noun

tuba (Jawi spelling توبا, plural tuba-tuba, informal 1st possessive tubaku, 2nd possessive tubamu, 3rd possessive tubanya)

  1. (fishing) fish poison made from plant roots
    Hypernym: racun
  2. a Malayan plant whose roots are a significant source of rotenone, Derris malaccensis.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Indonesian: tuba
  • → English: tuba

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tuba/
  • Rhymes: -uba, -ba, -a

Noun

tuba (plural duplication, informal 1st possessive tubaku, 2nd possessive tubamu, 3rd possessive tubanya)

  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.

Further reading

  • “tuba” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tubā.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tuba f (diminutive tubka)

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

Declension

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin tuba.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ubɐ
  • Hyphenation: tu‧ba

Noun

tuba f (plural tubas)

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Tagalog tuba or Cebuano tuba.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tuba f (uncountable)

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

Further reading

  • “tuba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tuˈbaʔ/, [tʊˈbaʔ]
  • Hyphenation: tu‧ba

Noun

tubâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊ)

  1. tubâ (Filipino alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm trees)
Derived terms
  • tubaan
See also
  • lambanog

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubah, from Proto-Austronesian *tubah (“Derris elliptica”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtuba/, [ˈtu.bɐ]
  • Hyphenation: tu‧ba

Noun

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
Derived terms

Tausug

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuba.

Noun

tuba

  1. wine (made from plants, e.g. rice)

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtu.ba]

Verb

tuba

  1. (stative) to be piled

Conjugation

References

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

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