uba

See also: UBA, ubá, and Ubá

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *upa, possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (Latvian pupa). Cognate with Livonian pubā. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

uba (genitive oa, partitive uba)

1. bean

Declension

Declension of uba (ÕS type 18e/tuba, b-ø gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		uba	oad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	oa
genitive			ubade
partitive		uba	ube ubasid
illative		uppa oasse	ubadesse
inessive		oas	ubades
elative		oast	ubadest
allative		oale	ubadele
adessive		oal	ubadel
ablative		oalt	ubadelt
translative		oaks	ubadeks
terminative		oani	ubadeni
essive		oana	ubadena
abessive		oata	ubadeta
comitative		oaga	ubadega

Derived terms

• kohviuba

Further reading

• uba in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔù.báː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔʊ̀.báː]

Noun

ùbā m (plural ùbànnī, possessed form ùban)

1. father
2. head, leader, patron

Coordinate terms

• uwā

Laz

Noun

uba

1. Latin spelling of უბა (uba)

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Noun

uba f (plural ubas)

1. grape

Nheengatu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi uba, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tup (“father”), from Proto-Tupian *t͡sup (“father”).

Noun

uba (IIb class pluriform, plural uba-itá, absolute tuba, R1 ruba, R2 tuba)

1. (archaic) dad, father (one's male parent)

   Synonym: paya

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.βa/, [ˈuβ̞a]
• Rhymes: -uβa
• Hyphenation: u‧ba

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tup (“father”), from Proto-Tupian *t͡sup (“father”).

Cognate with Guaraní túva.

Noun

uba (possessable, IIb class pluriform, absolute tuba, R1 ruba, R2 tuba)

1. dad, father (one's male parent)

   Coordinate term: sy (“mother”)

2. (broadly) parents
3. paternal uncle (brother of one's father)
4. first cousin once removed (cousin of one's father)
5. (Christianity, Late Tupi) godfather (man present at the christening of a baby)

   Synonyms: erokarûera, porerokarûera

Descendants

• Nheengatu: uba

See also

• Appendix:Old Tupi terms of family and kinship

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔɨβ (“thigh”), from Proto-Tupian *kʔɨp (“leg”).

Cognate with Guaraní uvã.

Noun

uba (possessable)

1. thigh

   Synonym: anangûyra

Etymology 3

Noun

uba (possessable)

1. roe (fish eggs)

Etymology 4

Noun

uba (possessable)

1. ash (solid remains of a fire)

   Synonym: tanimbuka

Related terms

• ub

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “uba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 493, columns 1–2

Ternate

Etymology

From Malay ubat (“gunpowder”). Compare with Indonesian obat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.ba/

Noun

uba

1. gunpowder

References

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

West Makian

Etymology

Possibly from an older ubat (if not an error), recorded in van der Crab's De Moluksche Eilanden's wordlist (as oebat).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.ba/

Verb

uba

1. (transitive) to carry

Conjugation

Conjugation of uba (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		touba	mouba	auba
2nd person		nouba	fouba
3rd person	inanimate	iuba	douba
	animate
imperative		nuuba, uba	fuuba, uba

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[4], Pacific linguistics