Cuba

Cuba

See also: cuba, cúba, cubà, Cúba, and čuba

English

Etymology 1

Disputed; likely from Taíno cubao (“abundant fertile land”) or coabana (“great place”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kyo͞oʹ-bə, IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːbə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈkjʉː.bə]
• (UK, US) IPA^(key): [ˈkjuː.bə]

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uːbə
• Hyphenation: Cu‧ba

Proper noun

Cuba

1. A country, and the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean. Capital and largest city: Havana.
2. A locale in the United States; named for the island country.
   1. A city in Crawford County, Missouri.
   2. A town in New York, and a village within it.
   3. A city in Illinois.
   4. A village in New Mexico.
   5. A town in Alabama.
   6. A city in Kansas.
   7. An unincorporatedcommunity in Georgia.
   8. An unincorporatedcommunity in Allen County, Indiana.
   9. An unincorporatedcommunity in Owen County, Indiana.
   10. An unincorporatedcommunity in Kentucky.
   11. An unincorporatedcommunity in Clinton County, Ohio.
   12. An unincorporatedcommunity in Putnam County, Ohio.
   13. An unincorporatedcommunity in West Virginia.
   14. A ghost town in Minnesota.
   15. A ghost town in Lafayette County, Missouri.
   16. A former settlement in Lassen County, California.
   17. A former settlement in Merced County, California.
3. A surname.

Derived terms

• Cuban
• Cubamerican

Translations

country and largest island in Caribbean

Abkhaz: Куба (Kʼuba) Adyghe: Куба (Kʷubaa) Afrikaans: Kuba Albanian: Kubë f Amharic: ኩባ (kuba) Arabic: كُوبَا‎ (ar) f (kūbā) Aragonese: Cuba f Armenian: Կուբա (hy) (Kuba) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܘܼܒܵܐ‎ f (kuba) Asturian: Cuba (ast) f Azerbaijani: Kuba (az) Bashkir: Куба (Kuba) Basque: Kuba (eu) Belarusian: Ку́ба f (Kúba) Bengali: কিউবা (bn) (kiuba) Bhojpuri: 𑂍𑂹𑂨𑂳𑂥𑂰 (kyubā) Breton: Kuba (br) Bulgarian: Ку́ба f (Kúba) Burmese: က္ယူးဘား (ka.yu:bha:), ကျူးဘား (kyu:bha:) Catalan: Cuba (ca) f Chechen: Куба (Kuba) Chinese: Mandarin: 古巴 (zh) (Gǔbā) Chuvash: Куба (Kuba) Czech: Kuba (cs) f Danish: Cuba n Dhivehi: ކިއުބާ‎ (kiubā) Dutch: Cuba (nl) n Esperanto: Kubo (eo) Estonian: Kuuba (et) Extremaduran: Cuba Faroese: Kuba f or n Finnish: Kuuba (fi) French: Cuba (fr) m Friulian: Cube f Galician: Cuba (gl) f Georgian: კუბა (ḳuba) German: Kuba (de) n Greek: Κούβα (el) f (Koúva) Gujarati: ક્યુબા (kyubā) Haitian Creole: Kiba Hebrew: קוּבָּה‎ (he) f (kúba) Hindi: क्यूबा (hi) m (kyūbā) Hungarian: Kuba (hu) Icelandic: Kúba (is) f Indonesian: Kuba (id) Ingush: Куба (Kuba) Interlingua: Cuba Irish: Cúba m Italian: Cuba (it) f Japanese: キューバ (ja) (Kyūba) (玖馬 (ja) (Kyūba) (obsolete)) Kabardian: Куба (Kʷubaa) Kalenjin: Kiuba Kamba: Kiuba Kannada: ಕ್ಯೂಬಾ (kyūbā) Kazakh: Куба (kk) (Kuba) Khmer: គុយបា (km) (kuybaa) Kikuyu: Kiuba Komi-Zyrian: Куба (Kuba) Korean: 쿠바 (ko) (Kuba), 꾸바 (ko) (Kkuba) (North Korea) Kyrgyz: Куба (ky) (Kuba) Lao: ກູຍບາ (kū nya bā), ກຸບາ (ku bā), ກູບາ (kū bā) Latgalian: Kuba Latvian: Kuba f Lezgi: Куба (Kuba) Limbu: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: Kuba (lt) f Luhya: Kiuba Luo: Kiuba Macedonian: Куба (mk) f (Kuba) Magahi: 𑂍𑂹𑂨𑂳𑂥𑂰 (kyubā) Maithili: किउबा (kiubā) Malay: Cuba Malayalam: ക്യൂബ (kyūba) Maltese: il-Kuba Maori: Kiupa Marathi: क्युबा (kyubā) Mari: Eastern Mari: Куба (Kuba) Western Mari: Куба (Kuba) Meru: Kiuba Mirandese: Cuba f Mongolian: Cyrillic: Куба (mn) (Kuba) Navajo: Naakaii Nátʼohí Bikéyah Nepali: क्युबा (kyubā) Norman: Cuba m Norwegian: Bokmål: Cuba (no) n Nynorsk: Cuba n Occitan: Cuba (oc) f Oriya: କ୍ୟୁବା (kyuba) Oromo: Kuubaa Ossetian: Кубӕ (Kubæ) Pashto: کوبا‎ f (kubā) Persian: کوبا‎ (fa) (kubâ) Polish: Kuba (pl) f Portuguese: Cuba (pt) f Punjabi: ਕਿਊਬਾ (kiūbā) Romanian: Cuba (ro) f Russian: Ку́ба (ru) f (Kúba) Rusyn: Ку́ба f (Kúba) Samogitian: Kuba Sanskrit: क्यूबा (kyūbā) Santali: ᱠᱤᱣᱵᱟ (kivba) Scottish Gaelic: Cùba m, Ciùba m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ку́ба f Roman: Kúba (sh) f Shan: ၵူးပႃး (kúu páa) Sicilian: Cubba f Sinhalese: කියුබාව (kiyubāwa) Slovak: Kuba (sk) f Slovene: Kúba (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: Kuba f Upper Sorbian: Kuba f Spanish: Cuba (es) f Swahili: Cuba (sw), Kuba (sw) Swedish: Kuba (sv) n Sylheti: please add this translation if you can Tagalog: Kuba Tajik: Куба (tg) (Kuba) Tamil: கூபா (kūpā) Tatar: Куба (Quba) Telugu: క్యూబా (te) (kyūbā) Tetum: Kuba Thai: คิวบา (th) (kiu-baa) Tibetan: ཀུ་བ (ku ba) Turkish: Küba (tr) Turkmen: Kuba Udmurt: Куба (Kuba) Ukrainian: Ку́ба (uk) f (Kúba) Urdu: کیوبا‎ m (kyūbā) Uyghur: كۇبا‎ (kuba) Uzbek: Kuba (uz) Veps: Kuba Vietnamese: Cu-ba, Quy Ba (vi) (obsolete)) Võro: Kuuba Yakut: Куба (Kuba) Yiddish: קובאַ‎ (kuba) Yoruba: Kúbà

a village in New Mexico

Navajo: Naʼazísí Toʼí

See also

• (countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States

Etymology 2

From Portuguese Cuba, possibly of Arabic origin.

Proper noun

Cuba

1. A village in Beja district, Portugal.

Anagrams

• ubac

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Aragonese

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

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Asturian

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• cubanu

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ba/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Derived terms

• cubà

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Cebuano

Noun

Cuba

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)
2. a surname

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Cuba

1. Cuba (a country in North America)

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Classical Nahuatl

Proper noun

Cuba

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

References

• Mancilla Sepúlveda, Héctor. (2000) Lecciones de Nahuatl, Hirata Editorial, México DF.

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Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːba

Proper noun

Cuba

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Cuba, of disputed origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈky.baː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Cu‧ba

Proper noun

Cuba n

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean) [from late 16th c.]

Derived terms

• Cubaan

Related terms

• Cubaans

Descendants

• Afrikaans: Kuba

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Extremaduran

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.ba/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

See also

• (countries of North America) pays de l'Amérique du Nord; Antigua-et-Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbade, Canada, Cuba, Dominique, États-Unis, Grenade, Haïti, Jamaïque, Mexique, République dominicaine, Saint-Christophe-et-Niévès, Saint-Vincent-et-Grenadines, Sainte-Lucie, Trinité-et-Tobago ^{(Category: fr:Countries in North America)}

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Galician

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba

Related terms

• cubano

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Cuba

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ba/
• Rhymes: -uba
• Hyphenation: Cù‧ba

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Derived terms

• cubano

Anagrams

• buca

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Latin

Etymology 1

From cubō (“I lie down”).

Proper noun

Cuba f sg (genitive Cubae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) The goddess who protects the lying down of children

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Cuba
Genitive	Cubae
Dative	Cubae
Accusative	Cubam
Ablative	Cubā
Vocative	Cuba

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.ba/, [ˈkuːbä] or IPA^(key): /ˈku.ba/, [ˈkʊbä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ba/, [ˈkuːbä]
• Note: length of the vowel uncertain: New Latin borrowing of uncertain etymology with varying length treatment in modern languages.

Proper noun

Cū̆ba f sg (genitive Cū̆bae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Cū̆ba
Genitive	Cū̆bae
Dative	Cū̆bae
Accusative	Cū̆bam
Ablative	Cū̆bā
Vocative	Cū̆ba
Locative	Cū̆bae

References

• “Cuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Cuba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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Mirandese

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

(Urban East Norwegian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰʉ̀ːbɑ/

Proper noun

Cuba

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• cubaner, kubaner
• cubansk, kubansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Cuba

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• cuban, kuban
• cubanar, kubanar
• cubansk, kubansk

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Occitan

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• cuban

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ba/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bɐ/ [ˈku.βɐ]

• Homophone: cuba
• Hyphenation: Cu‧ba

• Audio (Portugal)

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Etymology 1

Possibly from Arabic قُبَّة‎ (qubba, “small tower”), or from cuba (“cask”).

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. A village and municipality of Beja district, Portugal

Derived terms

• cubense

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• cubano

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• cuban, cubană
• cubanez, cubaneză

Further reading

• Cuba in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Spanish

Etymology

Disputed; likely from Taíno cubao (“abundant fertile land”) or coabana (“great place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuba/ [ˈku.β̞a]

• Audio (Latin America)

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• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: Cu‧ba

Proper noun

Cuba f

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Derived terms

• cubano
• más se perdió en Cuba

Descendants

• → Tagalog: Kuba

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Swahili

Alternative forms

• Kuba

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Cuba

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean)

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Swedish

Proper noun

Cuba n (genitive Cubas)

1. Dated spelling of Kuba (“Cuba”).
   • 1899, John af Klercker, Cuba och dess frihetskamp: en kulturhistorisk studie: med 177 illustrationer och kartor [Cuba and its struggle for liberty: a cultural-historical study: with 177 illustrations and maps]‎, C.& E. Gernandt: