tuber

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Received-Pronunciation: tyo͞oʹbə r
  Play
• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːbə(ɹ)/
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• General-American: to͞oʹbə r
  Play
• General-American: /ˈtubɚ/
  Play
• rhymes with -uːbə(ɹ)
  Play
• homophone: (non-rhotic) tuba
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: T UW1 B ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

From Latin tūber (“bump, hump, swelling”).

Etymology tree Latin tuba Latin tubusder. Middle French tubeder. English tube English -er English tuber From tube + -er.

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: zhardhok — fleshy underground stem
• Armenian: կոճղեզ (kočġez) — fleshy underground stem
• Armenian: պալար (palar) — fleshy underground stem
• Belarusian: бу́льба (búlʹba) — fleshy underground stem
• Belarusian: клу́бень (klúbjenʹ) — fleshy underground stem
• Belarusian: бу́льбіна (búlʹbina) — fleshy underground stem
• Central Bikol: duma — fleshy underground stem
• Bulgarian: клу́бен (klúben) — fleshy underground stem
• Bulgarian: грудка (grudka) — fleshy underground stem
• Burmese: ဥ (u.) — fleshy underground stem
• Catalan: tubercle — fleshy underground stem
• Chinese Mandarin: 塊莖 /块茎 (kuàijīng) — fleshy underground stem
• Chinese Mandarin: 塊根 /块根 (kuàigēn) — fleshy underground stem
• Chinese Mandarin: 球根 (qiúgēn) — fleshy underground stem
• Czech: bulva — fleshy underground stem
• Czech: hlíza — fleshy underground stem
• Danish: knold — fleshy underground stem
• Dutch: knol — fleshy underground stem
• Finnish: mukula — fleshy underground stem
• French: tubercule — fleshy underground stem
• Georgian: ბოლქვი (bolkvi) — fleshy underground stem
• Georgian: გორგლი (gorgli) — fleshy underground stem
• German: Knolle — fleshy underground stem
• German: Wurzelknolle — fleshy underground stem
• Hungarian: gumó — fleshy underground stem
• Ido: tuberkulo — fleshy underground stem
• Indonesian: umbi — fleshy underground stem
• Irish: tiúbar — fleshy underground stem
• Italian: tubero — fleshy underground stem
• Japanese: 芋 (imo) — fleshy underground stem
• Kannada: ಗಡ್ಡೆ (gaḍḍe) — fleshy underground stem
• Khmer: មើម (məəm) — fleshy underground stem
• Korean: 괴경 (goegyeong) — fleshy underground stem
• Lao: ມັນ (man) — fleshy underground stem
• Malay: ubi — fleshy underground stem
• Malay: tuber — fleshy underground stem
• Malayalam: കിഴങ്ങ് (kiḻaṅṅŭ) — fleshy underground stem
• Māori: kōpura — fleshy underground stem
• Māori: tinaku — fleshy underground stem
• Norwegian Bokmål: knoll — fleshy underground stem
• Norwegian Nynorsk: knoll — fleshy underground stem
• Polish: bulwa — fleshy underground stem
• Portuguese: tubérculo — fleshy underground stem
• Russian: клу́бень (klúbenʹ) — fleshy underground stem
• Spanish: tubérculo — fleshy underground stem
• Spanish: auyama — fleshy underground stem
• Swedish: knöl — fleshy underground stem
• Swedish: rotknöl — fleshy underground stem
• Swedish: stamknöl — fleshy underground stem
• Swedish: pålrot — fleshy underground stem
• Swedish: rotfrukt — fleshy underground stem
• Tagalog: busnginsuloy — fleshy underground stem
• Tagalog: lamang-lupa — fleshy underground stem
• Tamil: கிழங்கு (kiḻaṅku) — fleshy underground stem
• Telugu: దుంప (dumpa) — fleshy underground stem
• Thai: มัน (man) — fleshy underground stem
• Turkish: yumru — fleshy underground stem
• Ukrainian: бу́льба (búlʹba) — fleshy underground stem
• Vietnamese: củ — fleshy underground stem
• Welsh: cloronen — fleshy underground stem
• Finnish: mukula — horticulture: thickened rootstock
• Bulgarian: буца (buca) — anatomy: rounded, protuberant structure in body
• French: protubérance — anatomy: rounded, protuberant structure in body
• Polish: guz — anatomy: rounded, protuberant structure in body