uba

From Proto-Finnic *upa, 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.

uba (genitive oa, partitive uba)

1. bean

• kohviuba

• uba in Sõnaveeb

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

ùbā m (plural ùbànnī, possessed form ùban)

1. father
2. head, leader, patron

• uwā

uba (Atina, Vizha, Artasheni, Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi)

1. Latin spelling of უბა (uba)

From Latin ūva.

uba f (plural ubas)

1. grape

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔuβ̞a/, /ˈtuβ̞a/

uba (t-, t-)

1. one's male parent, father
2. brother of one's father, paternal uncle
3. cousin of one's father

• The stem uba could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. The absolute form tuba was used whenever the noun was not possessed.

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.ba/

uba

1. gunpowder

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.ba/

uba

1. (transitive) to carry

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