different between tuber vs chufa

English

Etymology

From Latin t?ber (“bump, hump, swelling”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tyo?o'b?(r), IPA^(key): /tju?b?(?)/
• Rhymes: -u?b?(r)

Noun

tuber (plural tubers)

1. A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.
2. (horticulture) A thickened rootstock.
3. (anatomy) A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body.

Related terms

• tubercle
• tubercular

Translations

Anagrams

• Ubert, brute, buret, rebut

French

Etymology

From tube +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.be/

Verb

tuber

1. to make into a tube shape
2. to put into a tube

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• brute, buter, rebut

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *t??os, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh?- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu?.ber/, [?t?u?b?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.ber/, [?t?u?b?r]

Noun

t?ber n (genitive t?beris); third declension

1. a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence
2. the cyclamen or other similar plants with tuberous roots
3. a truffle (any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

See tubus

Alternative forms

• tubur

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu.ber/, [?t??b?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.ber/, [?t?u?b?r]

Noun

tuber m or f (genitive tuberis); third declension

1. (usually feminine) a kind of tree or bush of foreign origin, possibly the azarole (Crataegus azarolus)
2. (usually masculine) the fruit of the above tree

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• tuber in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tuber in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tuber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chufa, possibly from Latin c?phi (“gallingale perfume”), from Ancient Greek ???? (kûphi, “a kind of Egyptian incense”), from Egyptian k?pt (“incense”), a nominal derivative of k?p (“to cense”).

Noun

chufa (countable and uncountable, plural chufas)

1. Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).
   • 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, Harvard Common Press (?ISBN), page 119:

     Chufa is most popular in two places in the Mediterranean, Spain and Egypt (especially around Damietta). In Spain, especially in the region of Valencia, chufa is used to make a drink called horchata.

Synonyms

• chufa sedge, yellow nutsedge, tigernut sedge, earthalmond

Translations

Further reading

• Cyperus esculentus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cyperus esculentus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Cyperus esculentus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• fauch

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese chufa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Back-formation from chufar (“to brag”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??ufa?/

Noun

chufa m (plural chufas)

1. mockery; joke; witty
2. flattery, praise
3. boast, brag

References

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??ufa/, [?t??u.fa]

Etymology 1

Not completely certain. Suggested from Latin c?phi (“gallingale perfume”), but the continuity of this word is doubtful. Perhaps instead the same word as trufa.

Noun

chufa f (plural chufas)

1. chufa

   Synonyms: cuca, alcatufa

2. tiger nut (edible tuber of that plant)

Descendants

• ? English: chufa

Etymology 2

Noun

chufa f (plural chufas)

1. (colloquial) slap in the face

   Synonyms: bofetada, tortazo

2. (archaic, colloquial) lie

   Synonyms: burla, mofa, mentira

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

chufa

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of chufar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of chufar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of chufar.

Further reading

• “chufa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.