# tubu
## Äiwoo
### Adjective

tubu
* dull, blunt

### References

* Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin tubus.

### Noun

tubu m (plural tubos)
* tube

## Fijian
### Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *tubu, from Proto-Oceanic *tubuq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubuq, *tumbuq, from Proto-Austronesian *tubuq.

### Verb

tubu
* (intransitive) to grow (to become bigger)

## Higaonon
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh.

### Noun

tubu
* sugar cane

## Iban
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tu.bʊʔ/

### Noun

tubu
* bamboo shoot

### Adjective

tubu
* robust
    Anak mit nya tubu amat gamal, aruh iya pait diberap.That small child is quite robust, so understandably he is heavy to be carried.

### Verb

tubu
* extend; lengthen
    Tubu enggau pemanjai rumah nuan tu awakka lantang agi endur kita diau.Extend your house so your living space is larger.
* elaborate; extend the conversation
    Lalu tubuka dia mih randau bukai, kala kitai tu betemu enggau tukang randau tuElaborate the conversation to other topics, inasmuch as we are meeting with this moderator.

## Limos Kalinga
### Noun

tubu
* leaf

## Lubuagan Kalinga
### Noun

tubu
* leaf

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَابَ (tāba).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-tubu (infinitive kutubu)
* to repent, confess

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -tubu :
| Positive present | -natubu |
| Subjunctive | -tubu |
| Negative | -tubu |
| Imperative singular | tubu |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kutubu |
| Negative | kutotubu |
Imperatives :
| Singular | tubu |
| Plural | tubuni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hutubu |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -litubu |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kutubu |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tatubu |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tatubu |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -situbu |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngetubu |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singetubu |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalitubu |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalitubu |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -metubu |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshatubu |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jatubu |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kitubu |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipotubu |
| Consecutive | katubu / positive subject concord + -katubu |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -katubu |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Related terms

* kitubio (“repentance”)
* toba (“repentance”)

### References

* ↑ Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 49 Nr. 396

## Tausug
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh.

### Pronunciation

* (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA: /tubu/ [t̪ʊˈβu]
* Rhymes: -u
* Syllabification: tu‧bu

### Noun

tubu (Sulat Sūg spelling تُبُ)
* sugar cane

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtu.bu]

### Noun

tubu
* top, peak

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh