buba

Yoruba buba

buba (plural bubas)

1. A woman's blouse worn in West African countries.

Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin būbō (“bubo”), from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbu.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈbu.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈbu.ba]

buba f (plural bubes)

1. pimple

   Synonym: bua

2. pox

• bua

• bubó

• “buba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

buba f

1. walking palm (Socratea exorrhiza)
2. floor made from the wood of the walking palm
3. floor

• “buba” in Gordon Koop, Lois Koop, Dicionário deni-português, Associação Internacional de Lingüística - SIL Brasil, 1985.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuba/

buba

1. biceps

• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bǫba.

• IPA^(key): /bûba/
• Hyphenation: bu‧ba

bȕba f (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ба)

1. bug
2. beetle

• “buba” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Compare Yoruba bùbá (“outer garment”), Baoule bui (“bark (skin)”), Kongo búuba (“outfit; small piece of cloth worn by a woman”), Mandinka bubá (“blouse”), Wolof buba (“garments”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Niger-Congo *-kwuba (“skin (bark, husk)”). [1]

buba

1. skin
   • 1855 April 23, “De slavernij en hare gruwelen in Suriname [Slavery and its horrors in Suriname]”, in Algemeen Handelsblad‎, Amsterdam, page 4:

     Pieri me na boeba, fo na ningre

     Strip me that Negro's skin off

2. (by extension), skin colour, race
   • 1985, “Mi Dren (I Shall Be Released)”, in Anne-Marie Hunsel (lyrics), Bob Dylan (music), Mi Dren (I Shall Be Released)‎, performed by Anne-Marie Hunsel:

     Ini mi dren mi ben syi / fa Srananman ben makandra / Ala buba ben kon na wan / Ke Masra, mi winsi a ben de tru

     In my dream, I saw / how the Surinamese were getting along / All races had united / Oh Lord, I wish it were true

3. fur
4. fleece
5. peel
6. shell
7. husk
8. crust
9. bark
10. sapwood
    • 1783, C. L. Schumann, Neger-Englisches Worterbuch [Negro English Dictionary]‎:

      Kuljara va ju no habi bunne hudu, da buba soso

      Your canoe doesn't have proper wood, it's just sapwood.

11. sheath

• Aukan: buba

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buba (n class, plural buba)

1. yaws

• M J F Cooper (2007 November 15) Swahili Medical Dictionary and Phrasebook, 2nd edition, Lulu.com, page 56

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.ba/

buba

1. (stative) alternative form of boba (“to call, summon”)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

Compare Baoule bui (“bark (skin)”), Kongo búuba (“outfit; small piece of cloth worn by a woman”), Mandinka bubá (“blouse”), Wolof buba (“garments”), Sranan Tongo buba (“skin”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Niger-Congo *-kwuba (“skin (bark, husk)”).

• IPA^(key): /bù.bá/

bùbá

1. (fashion) blouse or outer garment worn by women

   Synonym: bùbá obìnrin

2. (fashion) top or outer garment worn by men

   Synonym: bùbá ọkùnrin

3. (fashion) inner garment worn by men typically under an agbada