kubu

Inherited from Malay kubu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu (“field hut in the rice fields”). Doublet of kuwu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.bu/
• Rhymes: -bu
• Hyphenation: ku‧bu

kubu (first-person possessive kubuku, second-person possessive kubumu, third-person possessive kubunya)

1. corral, stockade.
2. bulwark, fort, redoubt, stronghold.
3. clique

• “kubu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

kubu

1. hat

kubu m

1. inflection of kubs:
   1. accusative/instrumental singular
   2. genitive plural

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu. Cognate with Tagalog kubo.

• IPA^(key): /kubu/
• Rhymes: -ubu, -bu
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [ˈkubu]

kubu (Jawi spelling کوبو, plural kubu-kubu, informal 1st possessive kubuku, 2nd possessive kubumu, 3rd possessive kubunya)

1. fort

• Indonesian: kubu

• “kubu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• kub

Borrowed from Italian cubo.

• IPA^(key): /ku.bu/

kubu m (plural kubijiet or kubiet)

1. cube

From Proto-Bantu *ngùbʊ́.

kubu

1. hippopotamus

From Proto-Bantu *ngùbʊ́.

kubu class 9/10 (plural dikubu)

1. hippopotamus

From Proto-Bantu *ngùbʊ́.

1=9
2=10

kubu (plural dikubu)

1. hippopotamus

From Proto-Finnic *kupu.

kubu

1. crop, craw (part of birds' digestive tract)

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “зоб”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika