different between cuba vs mambo

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

English

Etymology

From Haitian Creole mambo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).

Pronunciation

• (North America) enPR: ?mäm-b?, IPA^(key): /?m?mbo?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæmb??/

Noun

mambo (countable and uncountable, plural mambos or mamboes)

1. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) [from 20th c.]
   • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 47:

     The mambo next presented a container of water to the cardinal points, then poured libations to the centerpost of the peristyle, the axis along which the spirits were to enter.

   • 1995, Karen McCarthy Brown, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 219:

     The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction.

2. A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. [from 20th c.]

Alternative forms

• (voodoo priestess) manbo

Derived terms

• horizontal mambo

Translations

Verb

mambo (third-person singular simple present mambos, present participle mamboing, simple past and past participle mamboed)

1. (intransitive) To perform this dance.

Translations

See also

• Mambo (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mambo (dance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bammo

Czech

Noun

mambo n

1. mambo (dance)

Further reading

• mambo in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

French

Etymology

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??.bo/

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

1. mambo (music)
2. mambo (dance)

Further reading

• “mambo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo

Noun

mambo m (invariable)

1. mambo (dance and music)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Kimbundu mambu.

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

1. (Angola, colloquial) thing

   Synonym: coisa

Etymology 2

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

1. mambo (music)
2. mambo (dance)

Spanish

Etymology

From American Spanish, likely from Haitian Creole [Term?], ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”).

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

1. mambo (music)
2. mambo (dance)

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

mambo

1. plural of jambo

Interjection

mambo

1. (colloquial) how are you?

Swedish

Etymology 1

Probably from Haitian Creole mambo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mamb?/
• Rhymes: -amb?

Noun

mambo c

1. (dance) mambo; a type of Latin American dance

Declension

Etymology 2

Blend of mamma (“mum”) +? sambo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (sometimes proscribed) /?mamb?/, /²mam?bu?/

Noun

mambo c

1. (somewhat humorous) a person who still lives with their parents

Usage notes

• For notes on the pronunciation, see the usage notes under the entry sambo.

Declension

Related terms

• sambo
• särbo

References

• mambo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mambo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• bomma