uba

From Proto-Finnic *upa, possibly 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 (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• 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

1. Latin spelling of უბა (uba)

From Latin ūva.

uba f (plural ubas)

1. grape

Inherited from Old Tupi uba, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tup (“father”), from Proto-Tupian *t͡sup (“father”).^[1][2]

uba (IIb class pluriform, plural uba-itá, absolute tuba, R1 ruba, R2 tuba)

1. (archaic) dad, father (one's male parent)

   Synonym: paya

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.βa/, [ˈuβ̞a]
• Rhymes: -uβa
• Hyphenation: u‧ba

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tup (“father”), from Proto-Tupian *t͡sup (“father”).^[1]

Cognate with Guaraní túva.

uba (possessable, IIb class pluriform, absolute tuba, R1 ruba, R2 tuba)

1. dad, father (one's male parent)

   Coordinate term: sy (“mother”)

2. (loosely) parents
3. paternal uncle (brother of one's father)
4. first cousin once removed (cousin of one's father)
5. (Christianity, Late Tupi) godfather (man present at the christening of a baby)

   Synonyms: erokarûera, porerokarûera

• Nheengatu: uba

• Appendix:Old Tupi terms of family and kinship

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔɨβ (“thigh”), from Proto-Tupian *kʔɨp (“leg”).^[2]

Cognate with Guaraní uvã.

uba (possessable)

1. thigh

   Synonym: anangûyra

uba (possessable)

1. roe (fish eggs)

uba (possessable)

1. ash (solid remains of a fire)

   Synonym: tanimbuka

• ub

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “uba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 493, columns 1–2

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^[4], Pacific linguistics