# tubo
## Aklanon
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh, compare Malay tebu.

### Noun

tubo
* sugar cane

## Aragonese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtubo/
* Rhymes: -ubo
* Syllabification: tu‧bo

### Noun

tubo m (plural tubos)
* tube

### References

* Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “tubo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

## Bikol Central
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish tubo.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtubo/ [ˈtu.bo]
* Hyphenation: tu‧bo

#### Noun

túbo (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)
* a pipe, a tube (for water)

##### Derived terms

* tubero

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh, from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tuˈbo/ [tuˈbo]
* Hyphenation: tu‧bo

#### Noun

tubó (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)
* sugarcane

##### Derived terms

* katubohan

### Etymology 3

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tubuq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubuq, from Proto-Austronesian *Cubuq.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtuboʔ/ [ˈtu.boʔ]
* Hyphenation: tu‧bo

#### Noun

tubò (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)
* growth, sprouting
    Synonym: tambo
* mushroom
    Synonym: kurakding
* (finance) interest
    Synonym: interes

##### Derived terms

* magtubo

## Cebuano
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tubuq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubuq, from Proto-Austronesian *Cubuq.

#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: tu‧bo
* IPA: /ˈtuboʔ/ [ˈt̪u.boʔ]

#### Verb

tubo
* to grow
* to profit; to gain profit
* to pay the interest in order to renew or extend a loan

#### Noun

tubo
* the growth of a person, plant, etc.
* (finance) interest
    Synonym: interes
* (accounting, economics) profit

### Etymology 2

First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522. Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh, from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS. Compare Malay tebu.

#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: tu‧bo
* IPA: /tuˈbo/ [t̪ʊˈbo]

#### Noun

tubo
* sugar cane

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish tubo, from Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: tu‧bo
* IPA: /ˈtubo/ [ˈt̪u.bo]

#### Noun

tubo
* pipe (rigid tube)
* (anatomy) Fallopian tube
* penis

##### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:tubo.

### Anagrams

* buot, buto, tuob

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tubo and English tube.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtubo]
* Rhymes: -ubo
* Hyphenation: tu‧bo

### Noun

tubo (accusative singular tubon, plural tuboj, accusative plural tubojn)
* tube

#### Derived terms

* fumtubo

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtubo/ [ˈt̪u.β̞ʊ]
* Rhymes: -ubo
* Hyphenation: tu‧bo

### Noun

tubo m (plural tubos)
* tube, pipe (open at both ends)
* tube (container closed at one end)

#### Related terms

* tubular

### Further reading

* “tubo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Interlingua
### Noun

tubo (plural tubos)
* tube

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtu.bo/
* Rhymes: -ubo
* Hyphenation: tù‧bo

### Etymology 1

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

#### Noun

tubo m (plural tubi)
* tube
* pipe
* (derogatory, vulgar) a male homosexual

##### Related terms

* estubare
* intubare
* tubaggio
* tubatura
* tubazione
* tubetto
* tubicino
* tubicolo
* tubiero
* tubista
* tubolare
* tubo neurale

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tubo
* first-person singular present indicative of tubare

## Latin
### Noun

tubō
* dative/ablative singular of tubus

## Piedmontese
### Alternative forms

* tübu

### Etymology

From Italian tubo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtybu/

### Noun

tubo m (plural tubo)
* tube

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtu.bu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtu.bu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈtu.bo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtu.bu/ [ˈtu.βu]
* Rhymes: -ubu
* Hyphenation: tu‧bo

### Noun

tubo m (plural tubos)
* tube
* pipe
* (surfing) tube

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tubo.

### Further reading

* “tubo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtubo/ [ˈt̪u.β̞o]
* Rhymes: -ubo
* Syllabification: tu‧bo
* Homophone: tuvo

### Noun

tubo m (plural tubos)
* tube
    Synonym: canuto
* (Latin America) receiver (on a telephone)

#### Derived terms

* baile del tubo
* barco lanzatorpedos
* falda de tubo
* pollera tubo
* por un tubo
* tubo de buceo
* tubo de ensayo
* tubo de escape
* tubo de rayos catódicos
* tubo digestivo
* tubo fluorescente
* tubo lanzatorpedos
* tubo neural
* tubo respirador

#### Related terms

* tolva

#### Further reading

* “tubo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *tubuq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubuq (cf. Fijian tubu (“to grow”), Javanese ꦠꦸꦮꦸꦃ (tuwuh, “to grow”), Maori tupu (“to grow”), Malay tubuh (“body”) / tumbuh (“to grow”)), from Proto-Austronesian *Cubuq (cf. Paiwan cuvuq (“sprout”)).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /ˈtuboʔ/ [ˈt̪uː.boʔ] (“sprout; growth; native; (finance) interest; profit”, noun; “native (of a person)”, adjective)
*** Rhymes: -uboʔ
** IPA: /tuˈboʔ/ [t̪ʊˈboʔ] (“growing, germinating”, adjective)
*** Rhymes: -oʔ
* Syllabification: tu‧bo

#### Noun

tubò (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)
* sprout; shoot
    Synonyms: supling, supang, talbos, usbong, suloy
* germination; growth (of a seed)
    Synonyms: pagtubo, sibol, pagsibol, supang, pagsupang
* native of a place
* (finance) interest
    Synonyms: interes, gana, ganansiya
* profit
    Synonym: kita
* (figurative) new growth
    Synonyms: supang, suloy

##### Derived terms

* katutubo
* lupang-tinubuan
* magpapatubo
* magpatubo
* magtubo
* makatubo
* matubo
* pagpapatubo
* pagtubo
* pagtubuan
* pagtutubo
* pampatubo
* papagtubuin
* patubuan
* patubuin
* tinubo
* tubong binaboy
* tubong lugaw
* tubuan
* tubuin
* tumubo

#### Adjective

tubò (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)
* native of a place (of a person)

##### See also

* taga-

#### Adjective

tubô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)
* already growing or germinating (of seeds)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh (cf. Chamorro tupu, Kapampangan atbu, Sambali tabo, Malay tebu, Tausug tubu), from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS (cf. Kavalan tbus, Paiwan tjevus).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /tuˈbo/ [t̪ʊˈbo]
* Rhymes: -o
* Syllabification: tu‧bo

#### Noun

tubó (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)
* sugar cane

##### Derived terms

* magtubo
* magtutubo
* talbustubo
* tubuhan

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish tubo, from Latin tubus.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈtubo/ [ˈt̪uː.bo]
* Rhymes: -ubo
* Syllabification: tu‧bo

#### Noun

tubo (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜊᜓ)
* tube; pipe
* tube (of toothpaste, paint, etc.)
* glass bulb or tube (used to protect the light of a lamp)
    Synonym: embudo

##### Related terms

* liyabe-de-tubo
* tuberiya
* tubero

### Further reading

* “tubo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Cubuq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tebuS”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

### Anagrams

* but-o, buto, buot

## Ternate
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtu.bo]

#### Verb

tubo
* (transitive) to prod fruit

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtu.bo]

#### Noun

tubo
* thick billowing smoke

### References

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