Cuba

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

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

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• Rhymes: -uːbə
• Hyphenation: Cu‧ba

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 unincorporated community in Georgia.
   8. An unincorporated community in Allen County, Indiana.
   9. An unincorporated community in Owen County, Indiana.
   10. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
   11. An unincorporated community in Clinton County, Ohio.
   12. An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Ohio.
   13. An unincorporated community 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.

• Cuban
• Cubamerican

• (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

From Portuguese Cuba, possibly of Arabic origin.

Cuba

1. A village in Beja district, Portugal.

• ubac

Cuba f

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

Cuba f

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

• cubanu

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

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Cuba f

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

• cubà

Cuba

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

Cuba

1. Cuba (a country in North America)

Cuba

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

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

• Rhymes: -uːba

Cuba

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

Borrowed from Spanish Cuba, of disputed origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈky.baː/

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• Hyphenation: Cu‧ba

Cuba n

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

• Cubaan

• Cubaans

• Afrikaans: Kuba

Cuba f

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

• IPA^(key): /ky.ba/

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Cuba f

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

• (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)}

Cuba f

1. Cuba

• cubano

Cuba

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

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

Cuba f

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

• cubano

• buca

From cubō (“I lie down”).

Cuba f sg (genitive Cubae); first declension

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

First-declension noun, singular only.

• (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.

Cū̆ba f sg (genitive Cū̆bae); first declension

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

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “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

Cuba f

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

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

Cuba

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

• cubaner, kubaner
• cubansk, kubansk

Cuba

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

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

Cuba f

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

• cuban

• Homophone: cuba
• Hyphenation: Cu‧ba

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

Cuba f

1. A village and municipality of Beja district, Portugal

• cubense

Cuba f

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

• cubano

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Cuba f

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

• cuban, cubană
• cubanez, cubaneză

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuba/ [ˈku.β̞a]

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• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: Cu‧ba

Cuba f

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

• cubano
• más se perdió en Cuba

• → Tagalog: Kuba

• Kuba

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Cuba

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

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: