kubo

Borrowed from Spanish cubo. False cognate of Tagalog kubo, which is semantically and phonetically influenced by the Spanish, but is from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu (and cognate with Indonesian and Malay kubu).

• Hyphenation: ku‧bo

kubo

1. having stooped shoulders

kubo

1. cube

• buko, buok, kuob, ukob

Borrowed from Latin cubus, French cube, Italian cubo, English cube, Russian куб (kub) and German Kubus. Ultimately from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkubo]
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• Rhymes: -ubo
• Hyphenation: ku‧bo

kubo (accusative singular kubon, plural kuboj, accusative plural kubojn)

1. (geometry) cube

• ĵetkubo (“die”)
• kuba (“cubical”)
• kube (“cubically”)
• kubigi (“to cube (a number)”)

• → Ido: kubo

kubo

1. Rōmaji transcription of くぼ

kubo

1. arm

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975), page 602

• cobo, cubo – obsolete

From Proto-Philippine *kubu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu. Cognate with Ilocano kubo, Indonesian kubu and Malay kubu. Stress shifted from the final syllable to the penultimate due to contamination with the unrelated Spanish cubo (“cube”).

• Hyphenation: ku‧bo
• IPA^(key): /ˈkubo/, [ˈku.bo]

kubo

1. hut; shack
2. single-room rural dwelling