tobo

tobo

See also: töbo

Galician

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).[1]

Akin to Spanish tobillo ("ankle", anciently "anklebone").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoβo̝/

Noun

tobo m (plural tobos, feminine toba, feminine plural tobas)

1. burrow, den
   • 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 203:

     seique val máis estar dez anos nun bo presidio que dez días nesa cadea de Pontevedra, nese edificio triste, feo, cheirento, apestado, oscuro, inmundo que máis ben pode chamarse cortello ou tobo para feras que non casa para ter os homes

     I know that it is better to expend 10 years in a good colonial fort than ten days in that jail of Pontevedra, that sad, ugly, smelly, plagued, dark, filthy building, that could better be called a pigsty or a den for beasts than a house for men

   Synonyms: toco, pala

Synonyms

• toco

References

• “tobo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tobo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tobo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

1. Julian Santano Moreno (2004), “La familia del IE *teu-"hincharse" en las lenguas romances y en vasco. El sustrato indoeuropeo en la etimologia romance”, in Nouvelle revue d'onomastique‎, volume 43, issue 1, ISSN 0755-7752, pages 9-11

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Mansaka

Etymology 1

From tubo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh. Compare Malay tebu.

Noun

tobo

1. sugar cane

Etymology 2

From tubo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubuq. Compare Malay tumbuh.

Verb

tobo

1. to grow

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtobo/ [ˈt̪o.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: to‧bo

Noun

tobo m (plural tobos)

1. (Venezuela) bucket or container

   tobo de la basura ― garbage can, dustbin

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Swahili

Etymology

From -toboa.

Noun

tobo (ma class, plural matobo)

1. hole

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Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈto.bo/

Verb

tobo

1. (intransitive) to swim

Conjugation

Conjugation of tobo
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	totobo	fotobo	mitobo
2nd	notobo	nitobo
3rd	Masculine	otobo	itobo, yotobo†
Feminine	motobo
Neuter	itobo
† - archaic

References

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

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West Makian

Etymology

Compare Ternate tobo (“to swim”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪o.bo/

Verb

tobo

1. (intransitive) to bathe
2. (transitive) to bathe

Conjugation

Conjugation of tobo (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		totobo	motobo	atobo
2nd person		notobo	fotobo
3rd person	inanimate	itobo	dotobo
	animate
imperative		notobo, tobo	fotobo, tobo

References

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