chuba
See also: chūba
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Tibetan ཕྱུ་པ (phyu pa).
Noun
chuba (plural chubas)
- a long sheepskin coat made of thick wool, worn by Tibetans.
- 2007 November 4, Shaila Dewan, “Emory's Little Tibet”, in New York Times:
- DRESSED in a pale blue, floor-length chuba, Paige Wilson silently mouthed a paragraph-long greeting, in Tibetan, that she was about to deliver to the Dalai Lama.
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Xhosa
Verb
-chuba?
- (transitive) to peel
- Synonyms: -hluba, -kela
Inflection
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