Kuba

From Dutch Cuba, from Spanish Cuba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈky.ba/

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Kuba

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• Kuba on the Afrikaans Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^af

Kuba (definite accusative Kubanı, plural Kubalar)

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• Kuba on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^az

• IPA^(key): /kuba/ [ku.β̞a]

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• Rhymes: -uba, -a
• Hyphenation: Ku‧ba

Kuba inan

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• “38.- Munduko estatuen izenak, herritarren izenak, hizkuntza ofizialak eta hiriburuak [Names of the states of the world, nationalities, official languages and capitals]”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Arauak, Euskaltzaindia, 2019

Kuba

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• Kuba on the Breton Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^br

• IPA^(key): [ˈkuba]

Kuba f (relational adjective kubánský, demonym Kubánec, female demonym Kubánka)

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

Kuba m anim

1. a diminutive of the male given name Jakub

Kuba m anim (female equivalent Kubová)

1. a male surname

• “Kuba”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Kuba”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Kuba”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
• “Kuba”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Kuba f or n

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• Kuba on the Faroese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fo

Kuba

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːba/

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Kuba n (proper noun, genitive Kubas or (optionally with an article) Kuba)

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• Kubaner
• kubanisch

• Kuba on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Kuba”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

• IPA^(key): [ˈkubɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ku‧ba
• Rhymes: -bɒ

Kuba

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean; official name: Kubai Köztársaság)

• kubai

Kuba f

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• Kuba on the Latgalian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ltg

Kuba f (4th declension)

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• Kubas Republika

• kubietis, kubiete

• Kuba on the Latvian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^lv

Kuba f

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• kubietis m, kubietė f

From German Kuba, from Spanish Cuba; disputed, but likely from Taíno cubao (“abundant fertile land”) or coabana (“great place”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ba/
• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: Ku‧ba

Kuba f

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

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• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: Ku‧ba

Learned borrowing from Spanish Cuba.

Kuba f (related adjective kubański)

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

Clipping of Jakub.

Kuba m pers (diminutive Kubuś or (dialectal) Kubina)

1. a diminutive of the male given name Jakub

• → Vilamovian: Küba

• “Kuba”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• “Kuba”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2025–2030
• Oskar Kolberg (1867), “Kuba”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 272

Kuba f

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• Kuba on the Samogitian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sgs

• IPA^(key): /kǔːba/
• Hyphenation: Ku‧ba

Kúba f (Cyrillic spelling Ку́ба)

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuba/
• Homophone: kuba

Borrowed from Spanish Cuba; likely from Taíno [Term?].

Kuba f (genitive singular Kuby, declension pattern of žena)

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• kuba
• Kubánec
• Kubánka
• kubánsky

• “Kuba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Kuba

1. genitive of Kubo
2. accusative of Kubo

• IPA^(key): /kúːba/

Kȗba f

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

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Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Kúba
genitive	Kúbe
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Kúba
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Kúbe
dative (dajȃlnik)	Kúbi
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Kúbo
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Kúbi
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Kúbo

• Kubánec / Kubánka
• kubánski

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Kuba

1. alternative spelling of Cuba: Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʉːba/

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Kuba n (genitive Kubas)

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• kuban
• kubansk
• kubanska

• “Kuba”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH

Borrowed from Spanish Cuba.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkuba/ [ˈkuː.bɐ]
• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: Ku‧ba

Kuba (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜊ)

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• buka, ukab

Kuba

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

Kuba

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkuba/
• Rhymes: -uba
• Hyphenation: Ku‧ba
• Syllabification: Ku‧ba

Kuba f

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

• “Kuba” in Soblex

Kuba

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

Kuba

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

Kuba m

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

From English Cuba.

• IPA^(key): /kú.bà/

Kúbà

1. Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)