kubu

Inherited from Malay kubu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu (“field hut in the rice fields”). Doublet of kuwu.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkubu/ [ˈku.bu]
• Rhymes: -ubu
• Syllabification: ku‧bu

kubu (plural kubu-kubu)

1. corral, stockade
2. bulwark, fort, redoubt, stronghold
3. clique

• “kubu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

kubu

1. hat

kubu m

1. inflection of kubs:
   1. accusative/instrumental singular
   2. genitive plural

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu. Cognate with Tagalog kubo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkubu/ [ˈku.bu]
• Rhymes: -ubu, -u
• Hyphenation: ku‧bu

kubu (Jawi spelling کوبو, plural kubu-kubu)

1. corral, stockade
2. bulwark, fort, redoubt, stronghold
3. (figurative) clique

• > Indonesian: kubu (inherited)

• “kubu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• kub

Borrowed from Italian cubo.

• IPA^(key): /ku.bu/

kubu m (plural kubijiet or kubiet)

1. cube

From Proto-Bantu *ngùbʊ́.

kubu

1. hippopotamus

From Proto-Bantu *ngùbʊ́.

kubu class 9/10 (plural dikubu)

1. hippopotamus

From Proto-Bantu *ngùbʊ́.

1=9
2=10

kubu (plural dikubu)

1. hippopotamus

From Proto-Finnic *kupu.

kubu

1. crop, craw (part of birds' digestive tract)

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “зоб”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika