huba

• IPA^(key): /ˈhubaʔ/ [ˈhu.baʔ]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔubaʔ/ [ˈʔu.baʔ] (h-dropping)
• Hyphenation: hu‧ba

hubà (plural huruba, Basahan spelling ᜑᜓᜊ)

1. naked; nude
2. stripped (of one's clothes)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gǫba (“lip, mouth”);^[1] possibly originating in Ancient Greek γαμφηλαί (gamphēlaí).^[2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦuba]

huba f

1. muzzle (the protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws)

   Synonym: tlama

2. (vulgar) mouth (human mouth)

   Synonyms: tlama, (neutral) ústa

   Že tě huba nebolí. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Má hubu nevymáchanou. ― he has an unrisned gob

• “huba”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “huba”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “huba”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Proto-Finnic *hupa. Cognates include Finnish hupa and Veps huba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhubɑ/
• Hyphenation: hu‧ba
• Rhymes: -ubɑ

huba (genitive huvan, partitive hubua, comparative hubembi, superlative hubin)

1. small, little

Declension of huba (Type 2/boba, b-v gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	huba	huvat
genitive	huvan	huviin
partitive	hubua	hubii
illative	hubah	hubiih
inessive	huvas	huviis
elative	huvaspäi	huviispäi
allative	huvale	huviile
adessive	huval	huviil
ablative	huvalpäi	huviilpäi
translative	huvakse	huviikse
essive	huvannu	huviinnu
abessive	huvattah	huviittah
comitative	huvanke	huviinke
instructive		huviin
prolative	huvači

• Tatjana Boiko (2019) “huba”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 62

From Proto-Finnic *hupa. Cognates include Finnish hupa and Livvi huba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhubɑ/
• Hyphenation: hu‧ba
• Rhymes: -ubɑ

huba (comparative hubemb)

1. small

• Miikul Pahomov (2016) “huba”, in Учебный словарь литературного людиковского языка‎^[1], page 18

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• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: hu‧ba

Borrowed from Old Czech húba. Doublet of gęba.

huba f

1. bracket fungus, polypore, shelf fungus (tree fungus)

Borrowed from German Hufe.

huba f

1. (historical) land unit equal to 24 or 30 morgens

   Synonym: włóka

2. (chiefly in the plural, historical, obsolete) forest hamlet

   Synonyms: łańcuchówka, kąty, majdany

• huba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• huba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “huba”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 34
• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892) “huba”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 200

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gǫba. Cognate with Bulgarian гъба (gǎba), Slovene goba, Serbo-Croatian губа/guba, Russian губка (gubka). Non-Slavic cognates include Pashto غومبه (γumba, “swelling”). Compare Latin fungus, Ancient Greek σπόγγος (spóngos).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦuba]

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huba f (relational adjective hubový, diminutive hubka or hubička, augmentative hubisko)

1. mushroom

• “huba”, 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, 2003–2025

From Arabic حُبّ (ḥubb).^[1]

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huba class IX (plural huba class X)

1. love, friendship

• upendo

• Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎^[2], volume 22, →ISSN, page 84-85 of 72-103

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gǫ̀ba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦuba/
• Rhymes: -uba
• Hyphenation: hu‧ba
• Syllabification: hu‧ba

huba f (anatomy)

1. mouth (opening and cavity that, in humans, is located in the lower part of the face, limited externally by the lips and internally by the pharynx)
2. lip (each of the two fleshy, external parts that surround the entrance to the oral cavity)

• “huba” in Soblex

From Proto-Finnic *hupa, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *šupa. Cognates include Finnish hupa.

huba

1. bad

Inflection of huba (inflection type 6/kuva)
nominative sing.	huba
genitive sing.	huban
partitive sing.	hubad
partitive plur.	hubid
	singular	plural
nominative	huba	hubad
accusative	huban	hubad
genitive	huban	hubiden
partitive	hubad	hubid
essive-instructive	huban	hubin
translative	hubaks	hubikš
inessive	hubas	hubiš
elative	hubaspäi	hubišpäi
illative	hubaha	hubihe
adessive	hubal	hubil
ablative	hubalpäi	hubilpäi
allative	hubale	hubile
abessive	hubata	hubita
comitative	hubanke	hubidenke
prolative	hubadme	hubidme
approximative I	hubanno	hubidenno
approximative II	hubannoks	hubidennoks
egressive	hubannopäi	hubidennopäi
terminative I	hubahasai	hubihesai
terminative II	hubalesai	hubilesai
terminative III	hubassai	—
additive I	hubahapäi	hubihepäi
additive II	hubalepäi	hubilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “плохой, худой”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

• hube

huba

1. snake

   Huba mabuae.

   A snake bit me.

Less common than hube

• Languages with Wilf
• The mythology book; Big ideas simply explained: Huhuba
• Focus, chapter 8: Warao and Urarina; Romero-Figueroa 1985a:107-108

-huba

1. to sing

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “huɓa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “huɓa (6.3)”