English

Noun

Tuba ‎(plural Tuba)

1. (music) Abbreviation of bass tuba.

French

Noun

Tuba ‎(plural Tuba)

1. (music) Abbreviation of tuba basse ‎(“bass tuba”).

German

Noun

Tuba f ‎(genitive Tuba, plural Tuben)

1. tuba

Derived terms

• Kriegstuba

Noun

Tuba ‎(plural Tuba)

1. (music) Abbreviation of Basstuba ‎(“bass tuba”).

Italian

Noun

Tuba ‎(plural Tube)

1. (music) Abbreviation of tuba di basso ‎(“bass tuba”).

Turkish

Proper noun

Tuba

1. A female given name

English

A tuba.

Noun

tuba ‎(plural tubas)

1. A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
   • 1990, Thomas D. Rossing, The Science of Sound‎, page 230

     One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• euphonium, sousaphone
• tube
• tubular

Anagrams

• abut
• tabu

Cebuano

Noun

tuba

1. A reddish palm wine made from coconut or nipa sap.

See also

• bahal
• bahalina

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʊba/

Noun

tuba f

1. tube (a cylindrical container)
2. tuba (a large brass musical instrument)

Declension

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stuƀ-. Cognate to Finnish tupa, Icelandic stofa, German Stube, Swedish stuga, Livonian tubā

Noun

tuba ‎(genitive toa, partitive tuba)

1. room, chamber

Declension

Derived terms

• elutuba

French

Noun

tuba m ‎(plural tubas)

1. tuba
2. snorkel

Anagrams

• buta

Galician

Noun

tuba f ‎(plural tubas)

1. tuba

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtubɒ]
• Hyphenation: tu‧ba

Noun

tuba ‎(plural tubák)

1. (music) tuba

Declension

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uba

Noun

tuba f ‎(plural tube)

1. (music) tuba
2. top hat
3. (anatomy) tube

Synonyms

• (top hat) cilindro
• (tube) tuba di Falloppio

Derived terms

• tubarico

Verb

tuba

1. third-person singular present indicative of tubare
2. second-person singular imperative of tubare

Anagrams

• tabù

Latin

Etymology

Possibly connected to tibia ‎(“shinbone, reed-pipe”) with similarities in meaning and form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ba/

Noun

tuba f ‎(genitive tubae); first declension

1. A long trumpet over 1 meter in length.
2. tube

Declension

First declension.

Derived terms

• tubicen

Related terms

• tubus

Descendants

• English: tuba
• French: tuba
• Galician: tuba
• Italian: tuba
• Russian: ту́ба ‎(túba)

References

• tuba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tuba in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• TUBA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tuba”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the bugle, trumpet sounds before the general's tent: classicum or tuba canit ad praetorium
    
• tuba in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tuba in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, vol. 7, of Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Alexander Lubotsky ed., Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *tuba (compare Indonesian tuba), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuba (compare Fijian duva).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /tubə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /tuba/
• Rhymes: -ubə, -bə, -ə

Noun

tuba

1. poison that is made out of root

Polish

Noun

tuba f

1. (music) tuba

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

tuba f (plural tubas)

1. (music) tuba (a large brass musical instrument)