# Hub
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Etymology 1

From hub.

#### Proper noun

the Hub
* (informal) Nickname for Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

##### Derived terms

* Hubbite

### Etymology 2

Clipping of Pornhub, from hub.

#### Alternative forms

* hub

#### Proper noun

the Hub
* (Internet slang, euphemistic) Pornhub.
** 2019 November 18, u/karbonpanzer, “Porn hub should be the new youtube”, in Reddit‎, r/unpopularopinion, archived from the original on 26 December 2023:It will eventually, the Hub will replace every video site since it has everything for let's plays to porn.
** 2021 January 28, u/someguyat3am, “I don't want to be in a relationship with someone if they watch porn.”, in Reddit‎, r/unpopularopinion, archived from the original on 26 December 2023:Ive straight up had my girl hand me her phone with the hub opened up because she didnt wana deal with it lmao
** 2022 June 17, u/ishanG24, “💀💀💀💀”, in Reddit‎, r/HolUp, archived from the original on 26 December 2023:Bro must be down bad for being on the Hub in a subway.
** 2022 November 11, u/Crusty_Grape, “It looks like on red Circle”, in Reddit‎, r/dankmemes, archived from the original on 26 December 2023:Damn never knew the hub celebrates fucking rememberence day
** 2023 November 13, u/MoronGoron52, “Cursed_Porn”, in Reddit‎, r/cursedcomments, archived from the original on 26 December 2023:Why the fuck is SeaWorld on the hub?
** 2023 December 20, @TessaPaigex, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 26 December 2023:Should I post my first video on the hub? 😏

## Dutch
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɦʏp/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Hub
* Rhymes: -ʏp
* Homophone: hup

### Proper noun

Hub n
* A hamlet in Peel en Maas, Limburg, Netherlands

## East Central German
### Proper noun

Hub m
* (Erzgebirgisch) a diminutive of the male given name Hubert

### Further reading

* 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63:

## German
### Etymology 1

Deverbal from heben (“to lift”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /huːp/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uːp

#### Noun

Hub m (strong, genitive Hubes or Hubs, plural Hübe)
* lift, lifting
    Synonym: Heben
* (jargon) distance traveled by a piston within an engine
* (medicine) a puff, a spray (of an inhalator, a nasal spray, etc.)
    Synonym: Sprühstoß

##### Declension

$^1$Now rare, see notes.

##### Derived terms

* Frosthub
* Hubraum
* Hubvolumen

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /huːp/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uːp

#### Proper noun

Hub m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Hubs or (with an article) Hub, feminine genitive Hub, plural Hubs)
* a German surname

##### Declension

$^1$With an article.

##### Related terms

* Hube, Huber, Huben, Houben
* Huber, Hofer, Hübner

### Etymology 3

Unadapted borrowing from English hub.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hap/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ap

#### Noun

Hub m or n (strong, genitive Hubs, plural Hubs)
* (computing, transport) hub

##### Declension
### Further reading

* “Hub” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “Hub (Etymology 1)” in Duden online
* “Hub (Etymology 2)” in Duden online
* “Hub” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon