# huba
## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhubaʔ/ [ˈhu.baʔ]
* IPA: /ˈʔubaʔ/ [ˈʔu.baʔ] (h-dropping)
* Hyphenation: hu‧ba

### Adjective

hubà (plural huruba, Basahan spelling ᜑᜓᜊ)
* naked; nude
* stripped (of one's clothes)

#### Derived terms

* hubaan
* hubaon
* maghuba

#### See also

* hubad

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gǫba (“lip, mouth”); possibly originating in Ancient Greek γαμφηλαί (gamphēlaí).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɦuba]

### Noun

huba f
* muzzle (the protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws)
    Synonym: tlama
* (vulgar) mouth (human mouth)
    Synonyms: tlama, (neutral) ústa
    Že tě huba nebolí. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    Má hubu nevymáchanou. ― he has an unrisned gob

#### Derived terms

* hubatý
* hubice
* hubička
* jednohubka
* náhubek
* držet hubu
* hubovat
* mazat někomu med kolem huby
* žít z ruky do huby
* líná huba, holé neštěstí

### References

* ↑ Jiří Rejzek (2007) “huba”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda
* ↑ Václav Machek (1968) Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia

### Further reading

* “huba”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “huba”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “huba”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Livvi
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hupa. Cognates include Finnish hupa and Veps huba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhubɑ/
* Hyphenation: hu‧ba
* Rhymes: -ubɑ

### Adjective

huba (genitive huvan, partitive hubua, comparative hubembi, superlative hubin)
* small, little

#### Declension
### References

* Tatjana Boiko (2019) “huba”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 62

## Ludian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hupa. Cognates include Finnish hupa and Livvi huba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhubɑ/
* Hyphenation: hu‧ba
* Rhymes: -ubɑ

### Noun

huba (comparative hubemb)
* small

### References

* Miikul Pahomov (2016) “huba”, in Учебный словарь литературного людиковского языка‎, page 18

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxu.ba/
* (Greater Poland):
** (Northern Greater Poland) IPA: /ˈxu.ba/
** (Eastern Greater Poland) IPA: /ˈxu.ba/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uba
* Syllabification: hu‧ba

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Czech húba. Doublet of gęba.

#### Noun

huba f
* bracket fungus, polypore, shelf fungus (tree fungus)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Hufe.

#### Noun

huba f
* (historical) land unit equal to 24 or 30 morgens
    Synonym: włóka
* (chiefly in the plural, historical, obsolete) forest hamlet
    Synonyms: łańcuchówka, kąty, majdany

##### Declension
#### Further reading

* huba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* huba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Oskar Kolberg (1877) “huba”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 34

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gǫba. Cognate with Bulgarian гъба (gǎba), Slovene goba, Serbo-Croatian губа/guba, Russian губка (gubka). Non-Slavic cognates include Pashto غومبه (γumba, “swelling”). Compare Latin fungus, Ancient Greek σπόγγος (spóngos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɦuba]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

huba f (relational adjective hubový, diminutive hubka or hubička, augmentative hubisko)
* mushroom

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “huba”, 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, 2003–2025

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Arabic حُبّ (ḥubb).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

huba class IX (plural huba class X)
* love, friendship

#### See also

* upendo

### References

* Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎, volume 22, →ISSN, page 84-85 of 72-103
* ↑ 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 68 Nr. 578

## Upper Sorbian

Picture dictionary :
huba
nop
mozy
woko
huba
nós
huba
broda
čelesno
wucho
templ
tył :

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gǫ̀ba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɦuba/
* Rhymes: -uba
* Hyphenation: hu‧ba
* Syllabification: hu‧ba

### Noun

huba f (anatomy)
* mouth (opening and cavity that, in humans, is located in the lower part of the face, limited externally by the lips and internally by the pharynx)
* lip (each of the two fleshy, external parts that surround the entrance to the oral cavity)

#### Declension
### References

* “huba” in Soblex

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hupa, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *šupa. Cognates include Finnish hupa.

### Adjective

huba
* bad

#### Inflection
### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “плохой, худой”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

## Warao
### Alternative forms

* hube

### Noun

huba
* snake
    Huba mabuae.A snake bit me.

#### Usage notes

Less common than hube

### References

* Languages with Wilf
* The mythology book; Big ideas simply explained: Huhuba
* Focus, chapter 8: Warao and Urarina; Romero-Figueroa 1985a:107-108

## Zulu
### Verb

-huba
* to sing

#### Inflection
### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “huɓa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “huɓa (6.3)”