Kuba

From Dutch Cuba, from Spanish Cuba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈky.ba/

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Kuba

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

• Kuba on the Afrikaans Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^af

Kuba

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

• Kuba on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^az

• IPA^(key): /kuba/ [ku.β̞a]

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• Rhymes: -uba
• Hyphenation: Ku‧ba

Kuba inan

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

• “38.- Munduko estatuen izenak, herritarren izenak, hizkuntza ofizialak eta hiriburuak [Names of the states of the world, nationalities, official languages and capitals]”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Arauak, Euskaltzaindia, 2019

Kuba

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

• Kuba on the Breton Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^br

• IPA^(key): [ˈkuba]

Kuba f (related adjective kubánský, demonym Kubánec, female demonym Kubánka)

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean; capital: Havana)

Kuba m anim

1. a diminutive of the male given name Jakub
2. a male surname

• “Kuba”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Kuba”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Kuba”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

• “Kuba”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Kuba f or n

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

• Kuba on the Faroese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fo

Kuba

1. Cuba (a country in the Caribbean)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːba/

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Kuba n (proper noun, genitive Kubas or (optionally with an article) Kuba)

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

• Kubaner
• kubanisch

• Kuba on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Kuba” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• IPA^(key): [ˈkubɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ku‧ba
• Rhymes: -bɒ

Kuba

1. Cuba (an island and country in the Caribbean; official name: Republic of Cuba)

   Synonym: (official name) Kubai Köztársaság

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Kuba	—
accusative	Kubát	—
dative	Kubának	—
instrumental	Kubával	—
causal-final	Kubáért	—
translative	Kubává	—
terminative	Kubáig	—
essive-formal	Kubaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Kubában	—
superessive	Kubán	—
adessive	Kubánál	—
illative	Kubába	—
sublative	Kubára	—
allative	Kubához	—
elative	Kubából	—
delative	Kubáról	—
ablative	Kubától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Kubáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Kubáéi	—

Possessive forms of Kuba
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Kubám	—
2nd person sing.	Kubád	—
3rd person sing.	Kubája	—
1st person plural	Kubánk	—
2nd person plural	Kubátok	—
3rd person plural	Kubájuk	—

• kubai

• Kuba on the Hungarian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^hu

Kuba f

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

• Kuba on the Latgalian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ltg

Kuba f (4th declension)

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

• Kubas Republika

• kubietis, kubiete

• Kuba on the Latvian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^lv

Kuba f

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

• kubietis m, kubietė f

From German Kuba, from Spanish Cuba; disputed, but likely from Taíno cubao (“abundant fertile land”) or coabana (“great place”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuba/

Kuba f

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

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• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: Ku‧ba

Borrowed from Spanish Cuba.

Kuba f (related adjective kubański)

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

• (countries of North America) kraje Ameryki Północnej; Antigua i Barbuda, Bahamy, Barbados, Dominika, Dominikana, Grenada, Haiti, Jamajka, Kanada, Kuba, Meksyk, Saint Kitts i Nevis, Saint Lucia, Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki, Saint Vincent i Grenadyny, Trynidad i Tobago

Clipping of Jakub.

Kuba m pers (diminutive Kubuś or (dialectal) Kubina)

1. a diminutive of the male given name Jakub

• → Vilamovian: Küba

• Kuba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “Kuba”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022
• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “Kuba”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 272

Kuba f

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

• Kuba on the Samogitian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sgs

• IPA^(key): /kǔːba/
• Hyphenation: Ku‧ba

Kúba f (Cyrillic spelling Ку́ба)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuba/
• Homophone: kuba

Borrowed from Spanish Cuba; likely from Taíno [Term?].

Kuba f (genitive singular Kuby, declension pattern of žena)

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

• kuba
• Kubánec
• Kubánka
• kubánsky

• “Kuba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Kuba

1. genitive of Kubo
2. accusative of Kubo

• IPA^(key): /kúːba/

Kȗba f

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

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Kúba
genitive	Kúbe
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Kúba
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Kúbe
dative (dajȃlnik)	Kúbi
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Kúbo
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Kúbi
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Kúbo

• Kubánec / Kubánka
• kubánski

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Kuba

1. Alternative spelling of Cuba

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʉːba/

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Kuba n (genitive Kubas)

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

• kuban
• kubansk
• kubanska

• Kuba in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH

Borrowed from Spanish Cuba.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkuba/ [ˈkuː.bɐ]
• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: Ku‧ba

Kuba (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜊ)

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

• buka, ukab

Kuba

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

Kuba

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

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkuba/
• Rhymes: -uba
• Hyphenation: Ku‧ba
• Syllabification: Ku‧ba

Kuba f

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

• “Kuba” in Soblex

Other scripts
Yangi Imlo
Cyrillic	Куба‍
Latin	Kuba‍
Perso-Arabic (Afghanistan)

Kuba

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

Kuba

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

From English Cuba.

• IPA^(key): /kú.bà/

Kúbà

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