# uba
## Estonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *upa, possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (Latvian pupa). Cognate with Livonian pubā. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Noun

uba (genitive oa, partitive uba)
* bean

#### Derived terms

* kohviuba

### Further reading

* uba in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔù.báː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ʔʊ̀.báː]

### Noun

ùbā m (plural ùbànnī, possessed form ùban)
* father
* head, leader, patron

#### Coordinate terms

* uwā

## Laz
### Noun

uba
* Latin spelling of უბა (uba)

## Mirandese
### Etymology

From Latin ūva.

### Noun

uba f (plural ubas)
* grape

## Nheengatu
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi uba, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tup (“father”), from Proto-Tupian *t͡sup (“father”).

### Noun

uba (IIb class pluriform, plural uba-itá, absolute tuba, R1 ruba, R2 tuba)
* (archaic) dad, father (one's male parent)
    Synonym: paya

### References

* ↑ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
* ↑ Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “uba”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 781

## Old Tupi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈu.βa/, [ˈuβ̞a]
* Rhymes: -uβa
* Hyphenation: u‧ba

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tup (“father”), from Proto-Tupian *t͡sup (“father”).
Cognate with Guaraní túva.

#### Noun

uba (possessable, IIb class pluriform, absolute tuba, R1 ruba, R2 tuba)
* dad, father (one's male parent)
    Coordinate term: sy (“mother”)
* (broadly) parents
* paternal uncle (brother of one's father)
* first cousin once removed (cousin of one's father)
* (Christianity, Late Tupi) godfather (man present at the christening of a baby)
    Synonyms: erokarûera, porerokarûera

##### Descendants

* Nheengatu: uba

#### See also

* Appendix:Old Tupi terms of family and kinship

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔɨβ (“thigh”), from Proto-Tupian *kʔɨp (“leg”).
Cognate with Guaraní uvã.

#### Noun

uba (possessable)
* thigh
    Synonym: anangûyra

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

uba (possessable)
* roe (fish eggs)

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

uba (possessable)
* ash (solid remains of a fire)
    Synonym: tanimbuka

### Related terms

* ub

### References

* ↑ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
* ↑ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “uba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 493, columns 1–2

## Ternate
### Etymology

From Malay ubat (“gunpowder”). Compare with Indonesian obat.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈu.ba/

### Noun

uba
* gunpowder

### References

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

## West Makian
### Etymology

Possibly from an older ubat (if not an error), recorded in van der Crab's De Moluksche Eilanden's wordlist (as oebat).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈu.ba/

### Verb

uba
* (transitive) to carry

#### Conjugation
### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics