different between bub vs cuba

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

Probably imitative of the sound of drinking.

Noun

bub (uncountable)

1. (slang, historical) An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.
   • 1838, Samuel Morewood, A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors, page 662,

     Bub is made from ground barley and strong worts, and sometimes from strong small worts from the coolers, properly blended and boiled with some hops, in the proportion of one pound to a barrel of worts.

Etymology 2

Contraction of bubby.

Noun

bub (plural bubs)

1. (slang) A woman's breast.
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Penguin 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 631:

     ‘Mr. Blanford, I esteem that there is nothing more sublime in nature than a glimpse of an English lady's bubs.’

Etymology 3

Either a corruption of brother, a modification of bud, or a borrowing from Pennsylvania German Bub or Southern German Bub (as was spoken in various communities in America before the early 20th century), ultimately thought to be derived from Proto-Germanic *b?- (“close [male] relation”) and thus cognate to English boy and babe.

Noun

bub (plural bubs)

1. A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby.
   • 1857, T. B. Aldrich, What Jedd Pallfry found in the Coffin, The Knickerbocker, Volume 49, page 23,

     So he changed his brusque manner, and inquired, in a tone which was intended to be extremely conciliatory :

     ‘ What?s your name, bub ? ’

     ‘ The last one, Sir ? ’ asked bub, looking up.

   • 1857, Clara Augusta, Mrs. Peter Dame, George R. Graham, Graham?s Illustrated Magazine, Volume 50, page 398,

     Mrs. Peter filled her pocket with the cherries — “ Victoria and bub are so fond of them!” and we scrambled into the wagon.

2. A young brother; a little boy; a familiar term of address for a small boy.

Etymology 4

Noun

bub (plural bubs)

1. (Australia, slang) A baby.

Etymology 5

Shortened from bubble and bubbly.

Noun

bub (plural bubs)

1. Abbreviation of bubble.
2. (slang) champagne; bubbly.
   • 2003, 50 Cent, "In da Club":

     "You find me in da club, bottle full of bub"

Verb

bub (third-person singular simple present bubs, present participle bubbing, simple past and past participle bubbed)

1. (obsolete) To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.
   • 1563, Thomas Sackville, The Induction

     We passed on so far forth till we saw
     Rude Acheron, a loathsome lake to tell,
     That boils and bubs up swelth as black as hell

Meriam

Noun

bub

1. chest

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *bubu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bubu, from Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

Noun

bub

1. fish trap

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bub]

Noun

bub (nominative plural bubs)

1. (male or female) bovine (animal), bull, cow

Declension

Synonyms

• jixol (dated)
• smakun (dated)
• smaxol (dated)
• xoil (dated)
• xol (dated)

Derived terms

Related terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.ba/
• Homophones: cubas, cubât

Verb

cuba

1. third-person singular past historic of cuber

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cuba (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin c?pa (“cask; vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?a?/

Noun

cuba f (plural cubas)

1. cask (large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks)
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii

   Synonyms: bocoi, pipa

2. industrial vat (large tub)

Derived terms

• cubeta

References

• “cuba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cuba” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cuba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cuba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cuba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku.ba/
• Rhymes: -uba

Adjective

cuba

1. feminine singular of cubo

Noun

cuba f (plural cube)

1. cupola

Anagrams

• buca

Kikuyu

Alternative forms

• cuuba

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili chupa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ù??à?/, /?ù??à?/

This u is pronounced long.

As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes m?nd?, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irig?, ir?a, k?baata, k?m?r?, k?g?r?, m?ci?, m?geni, m?ri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, M?r?mi (“man's name”), etc. Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irig?, ir?a, iturubar? (pl. maturubar?), k?baata, k?m?r?, k?g?r?, m?ci?, m?geni, m?g?r?ki, m?mbirar?, m?nd?, m?ri, m?thuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.

Noun

cuba 14 (plural macuba)(diminutive gacuba)orcuba 9 or 10 (plural cuba)

1. bottle

   Synonym: m?cuba

References

• Muiru, David N. (2007). W?rute G?g?k?y?: Mar?twa Ma G?g?k?y? Mata?r?two Na G?th?ng?, p. 18.

Latin

Verb

cub?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cub?

References

• cuba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cuba in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??u?b?/, /t??u?bä/

Verb

cuba (Jawi spelling ?????)

1. to try; to attempt to do.
2. used to politely order someone to do a task.

Derived terms

• coba

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cuba, from Latin c?pa (“cask; vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?ku??/
• Homophone: Cuba

Noun

cuba f (plural cubas)

1. cask (large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks)

   Synonyms: tina, tonel

2. industrial vat (large tub)

   Synonym: tanque

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish [Term?], from Latin cupa, from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant.

Noun

cuba f (plural cubas)

1. barrel

   Synonyms: barril, pipa

Derived terms

• borracho como una cuba, como una cuba