tuba

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuː.bə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.bə/

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• Rhymes: -uːbə

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

tuba (plural tubas or tubae)

1. (anatomy) A tube or tubular organ.

• grunt-horn

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

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

Borrowed from Malay tuba.

tuba (uncountable)

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

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

From Cebuano tuba.

tuba (plural tubas)

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

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

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.

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

tubâ

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

• bahal
• bahalina

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

tuba

1. to cut down
2. to harvest banana fruits

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:tuba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuba]

tuba f

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

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

tuba (genitive toa, partitive tuba)

1. room, chamber

• IPA^(key): /ty.ba/

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tuba m (plural tubas)

1. tuba
2. snorkel

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

• buta

tuba f (plural tubas)

1. tuba

• IPA^(key): [ˈtubɒ]

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• Hyphenation: tu‧ba
• Rhymes: -bɒ

tuba (plural tubák)

1. (music) tuba

• ([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)

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

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”).

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.

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

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.

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

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

From Latin tuba.

tuba f (plural tube)

1. (music) tuba
2. top hat

   Synonym: cilindro

3. (anatomy) tube

   Synonym: tuba di Falloppio

• tubarico

• tuba bassa
• tuba contrabbassa
• tuba tenore
• tuba grave
• tuba wagneriana

• elicone
• sousaphone
• bombardone
• euphonium

tuba

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

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

• tabù

tuba

1. to say

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

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

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

First-declension noun.

• tūbārius
• tubicen
• tubilustrium
• tubula
• tubus

• “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, 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

• (Courland) tubā

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

tuba

1. (a small) house

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),

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

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.

• Indonesian: tuba
• → English: tuba

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

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

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.

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

Borrowed from Latin tubā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ba/

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• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: tu‧ba

tuba f (diminutive tubka)

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

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

From Latin tuba.

• Rhymes: -ubɐ
• Hyphenation: tu‧ba

tuba f (plural tubas)

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

From Tagalog tuba or Cebuano tuba.

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

tuba f (uncountable)

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

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

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

tubâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊ)

1. tubâ (Filipino alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm trees)

• tubaan

• lambanog

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

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

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuba.

tuba

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu.ba]

tuba

1. (stative) to be piled

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