Tube in Different Languages
Discover 'Tube' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Tube
Afrikaans buis | ||
Albanian tub | ||
Amharic ቧንቧ | ||
Arabic الة النفخ | ||
Armenian խողովակ | ||
Assamese টিউৱ | ||
Aymara tuwu | ||
Azerbaijani boru | ||
Bambara tiyo | ||
Basque hodia | ||
Belarusian трубка | ||
Bengali নল | ||
Bhojpuri ट्यूब | ||
Bosnian cijev | ||
Bulgarian тръба | ||
Catalan tub | ||
Cebuano tubo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 管 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 管 | ||
Corsican tubu | ||
Croatian cijev | ||
Czech trubka | ||
Danish rør | ||
Dhivehi ހޮޅި | ||
Dogri ट्यूब | ||
Dutch buis | ||
English tube | ||
Esperanto tubo | ||
Estonian toru | ||
Ewe nuto | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) tubo | ||
Finnish putki | ||
French tube | ||
Frisian buis | ||
Galician tubo | ||
Georgian მილი | ||
German tube | ||
Greek σωλήνας | ||
Guarani mba'ekua apu'a | ||
Gujarati ટ્યુબ | ||
Haitian Creole tib | ||
Hausa bututu | ||
Hawaiian paipu | ||
Hebrew צינור | ||
Hindi ट्यूब | ||
Hmong hlab ntxhoo | ||
Hungarian cső | ||
Icelandic rör | ||
Igbo ọkpọkọ | ||
Ilocano tubo | ||
Indonesian tabung | ||
Irish feadán | ||
Italian tubo | ||
Japanese チューブ | ||
Javanese tabung | ||
Kannada ಕೊಳವೆ | ||
Kazakh түтік | ||
Khmer បំពង់ | ||
Kinyarwanda itiyo | ||
Konkani ट्यूब | ||
Korean 튜브 | ||
Krio tyub | ||
Kurdish lûle | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) تیوب | ||
Kyrgyz түтүк | ||
Lao ທໍ່ | ||
Latin tubus | ||
Latvian caurule | ||
Lingala tiyo | ||
Lithuanian vamzdelis | ||
Luganda omupiira | ||
Luxembourgish réier | ||
Macedonian цевка | ||
Maithili नल्ली | ||
Malagasy fantsona | ||
Malay tiub | ||
Malayalam ട്യൂബ് | ||
Maltese tubu | ||
Maori ngongo | ||
Marathi ट्यूब | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯎꯇꯣꯡ | ||
Mizo dawt | ||
Mongolian хоолой | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပြွန် | ||
Nepali ट्यूब | ||
Norwegian rør | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chubu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନଳି | ||
Oromo ujummoo | ||
Pashto ټیوب | ||
Persian لوله | ||
Polish rura | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) tubo | ||
Punjabi ਟਿਊਬ | ||
Quechua tubo | ||
Romanian tub | ||
Russian трубка | ||
Samoan paipa | ||
Sanskrit नलिका | ||
Scots Gaelic tiùb | ||
Sepedi tšhupu | ||
Serbian цев | ||
Sesotho tube | ||
Shona chubhu | ||
Sindhi ٽيوب | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නළය | ||
Slovak trubica | ||
Slovenian cev | ||
Somali tuubo | ||
Spanish tubo | ||
Sundanese tabung | ||
Swahili bomba | ||
Swedish rör | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) tubo | ||
Tajik найча | ||
Tamil குழாய் | ||
Tatar труба | ||
Telugu ట్యూబ్ | ||
Thai หลอด | ||
Tigrinya ቱቦ | ||
Tsonga chupu | ||
Turkish tüp | ||
Turkmen turba | ||
Twi (Akan) dorobɛn | ||
Ukrainian трубки | ||
Urdu نالی | ||
Uyghur tube | ||
Uzbek naycha | ||
Vietnamese ống | ||
Welsh tiwb | ||
Xhosa ityhubhu | ||
Yiddish רער | ||
Yoruba ọpọn | ||
Zulu ishubhu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "buis" is cognate with the French word "buis", meaning "pipe" or "tube". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "tub" can also refer to a barrel or a vat, and is derived from the Latin word "tuba" meaning "trumpet". |
| Amharic | The word "ቧንቧ" in Amharic can also refer to a person who is talkative or gossipy. |
| Armenian | The word "խողովակ" in Armenian is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kel-, meaning "to bend". |
| Azerbaijani | "Boru" can also refer to a person who talks incessantly. |
| Basque | The Basque word 'hodia' additionally means 'today' or 'present day'. |
| Belarusian | "Трубка" - 1) Часть ствола дерева; 2) Дымоход; 3) Духовая часть духового муз. инструмента; |
| Bengali | The word "নল" (tube) also refers to a hollow water-lifting device consisting of a long, rigid piece. |
| Bosnian | The word 'cijev' can also refer to a part of a firearm or a musical instrument. |
| Bulgarian | Bulgarian word "тръба" can also mean "horn" or "trumpet". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "tub" is the alternate spelling of "tup", meaning "blockhead" |
| Cebuano | "Tubo" can also mean "bamboo" or "to grow" in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 管, in addition to meaning "tube", also refers to a government department or agency in Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 管 can also refer to a cylinder, a tube, a pipe, or a duct. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "tubu" can also refer to a "pipe" or a "cannon". |
| Croatian | The word 'cijev' derives from the Proto-Slavic word 'cěvь', meaning 'hollow stem' or 'pipe'. |
| Danish | In older Danish the word "rør" meant an elongated animal skin for storing liquids |
| Dutch | The Dutch word 'buis' can also be used to describe the tubes in a church organ. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "tubo" can also refer to the digestive tract. |
| Estonian | "Toru" can mean a cylindrical shape, a pipe, a hose, or a musical brass instrument. |
| Finnish | "Putki" can also refer to a large, long, hollow object. For example, a sewer pipe can be called a "viemäriputki". |
| French | The French word “tube” can also mean “TV” |
| Frisian | In Frisian, 'buis' can also refer to a conduit, pipe, or hose. |
| Galician | In Galician, "tubo" can refer to a tube, a toothpaste tube, or a drinking straw. |
| Georgian | მილი is also used in Georgian to refer to a "pen" or a "barrel for storing liquids." |
| German | The word "tube" in German can also refer to "valve," "subway," or "television." |
| Greek | The word "σωλήνας" can also refer to a type of pasta similar to penne. |
| Gujarati | In Gujarati, the word “ટ્યુબ” has its roots in the Sanskrit word “तुम्ब,” meaning “container” or “vessel” with a cylindrical shape. |
| Haitian Creole | "Tib" in Haitian Creole can also refer to a leg or a tree branch. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "bututu" can also refer to a cannon, horn, or megaphone. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, 'paipu' refers to the water-carrying bamboo cylinders used in pre-European society. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "צינור" (tube) also refers to the act of channeling water. |
| Hindi | "ट्यूब" का प्रयोग नल के लिए भी किया जाता है। |
| Hmong | hlab ntxhoo literally means "water's bamboo" (hlab=water, ntxhoo=bamboo), referring to old-day use of bamboo for carrying water |
| Hungarian | The word "cső" can also refer to other hollow cylindrical objects, such as a pipe organ or a pen barrel. |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "rör" initially denoted a reed or grass stem, and its current sense of "tube" is derived from that. |
| Igbo | The term ọkpọkọ also refers to "an armlet" and "a person of little intellect." |
| Indonesian | In Tagalog, "tabung" means to cover or hide; while in Malaysian, it means to store or save money in a cylindrical container. |
| Irish | "Feadán" also means "a little whistle" or "a small pipe" in Irish. |
| Italian | The Italian word 'tubo' can also refer to the inner tube used in bicycles. |
| Japanese | In Japanese, "チューブ" (pronounced "chūbu") can also refer to toothpaste or a subway line. |
| Javanese | "Tabung" in Javanese also means "to save money" or "savings account". (Old Javanese: ta-hung: to contain/save.) |
| Kannada | The word "ಕೊಳವೆ" can also refer to a vein or artery in the body. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "түтік" can also refer to a drinking straw, a chimney, or a pipe in musical instruments. |
| Khmer | The word "បំពង់" in Khmer can also refer to a section or part of a larger object. |
| Korean | The word "튜브" can also refer to a subway or a toothpaste tube in Korean. |
| Kurdish | In some dialects of Kurdish, lûle means "pipe", "barrel" or "rifle barrel". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "түтүк" originates from the Old Turkic word "*tüdük" and may have multiple meanings, such as "pipe" or "stalk". |
| Lao | The word "ທໍ່" is derived from the Sanskrit word "tūrya," which means musical instrument or pipe. |
| Latin | "Tubus" also means "thunderbolt" in Latin. |
| Latvian | The word "caurule" in Latvian is cognate with the English word "channel" |
| Lithuanian | "Vamzdelis" means "tube" in Lithuanian but also refers to a type of pastry filled with poppy seeds. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Réier", meaning "tube" in Luxembourgish, is derived from the Middle High German word "röre", meaning "reed" or "pipe". |
| Macedonian | In anatomy, "цевка" refers to the tibia, the larger of the two bones in the lower leg. |
| Malagasy | The word "fantsona" is derived from the Malay word "panchong", meaning "spout" or "water channel". |
| Malay | Tiub is a borrowed word from English, and in Indonesian it can also mean 'tyre'. |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, "tube" (ട്യൂബ്) is also used to refer to an injection or syringe, particularly in the medical context. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "tubu" also means "straw" or "reed". |
| Maori | The Maori word "ngongo" can also mean "to speak" or "a voice". |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "ट्यूब" (tube) has the same meaning as its English counterpart, but it can also refer to a straw or a pipe. |
| Mongolian | The word "хоолой" in Mongolian may derive from the verb "хоолох" which means "to wrap" or "to roll up". |
| Nepali | The word "ट्यूब (tube)" is derived from the Middle French word "tuibe," which in turn originates from the Latin word "tubus." |
| Norwegian | "Rør" also means "to shout" in Norwegian, which may derive from the sound of a long horn. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'chubu' is a homograph meaning both 'tube' and 'elbow' in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word “ټیوب” (tube) originates from Persian and has additional meanings like hollow organ or waterway. |
| Persian | The Persian word "لوله " (tube) can also refer to a cylindrical container or a musical instrument such as the pipe or reed. |
| Polish | The word "rura" in Polish is derived from German "Röhre" (which also means "tube") or Latin "rura" (meaning "pipe"). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "tubo" can also refer to a type of traditional Portuguese folk dance. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਟਿਊਬ" (tube) is derived from the Latin word "tubus" meaning "pipe" or "channel". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "tub" (tube) also refers to a whirlpool bath. |
| Russian | The word "трубка" also denotes various wind instruments such as the bugle or trumpet, the stem of a tobacco pipe, and the mouthpiece of a telephone. |
| Samoan | The word "paipa" also means "pipe" or "hollow tube" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Scots Gaelic, "tiùb" is cognate with "toib" in Irish and "tùb" in Welsh, all meaning "tube" and all ultimately derived from Late Latin "tūbus" |
| Serbian | In Old Serbian, the word “cev” also meant “water duct” and “canal”. |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word 'tube' can also refer to a 'drain' or 'pipe'. |
| Shona | The word "chubhu" can also refer to a person who is thin or of small stature. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "නළය" can also mean "pipe" or "conduit" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | "Trubica" comes from Latin "tromba" (a trumpet), but in Hungarian the word "törub" means "a break", and the Slovak "trubiť" means "to blow a trumpet" and also "to honk". |
| Slovenian | "cev" originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "*kewp-", meaning "to bend, to curve". |
| Somali | The Somali word "tuubo" can also refer to a type of traditional Somali skirt |
| Spanish | "Tubo" can also mean "pipe" or "hose". |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, 'tabung' can also refer to a bamboo container used for storing liquids or a metal cylinder used for storing money. |
| Swahili | The word 'bomba' in Swahili can also mean 'gun' or 'artillery', derived from the Portuguese word 'bomba' meaning 'bomb'. |
| Swedish | "Rör" is also a slang term for a woman's leg. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Tagalog, "tubo" can also refer to the process of growing or increasing, such as "paglaki ng tubo" (growth of sugar cane). |
| Tajik | Найча also means "stalk" and "reed" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "குழாய்" can also mean "pipe", "channel", or "conduit". |
| Telugu | The word ట్యూబ్ can also refer to a hollow cylindrical object or a channel for conveying liquids or gases. |
| Thai | In Northern Thai, "หลอด" (lot) can also refer to a type of bamboo flute. |
| Turkish | "Tüp" also means "natural gas" in Turkish, referencing the typical delivery method of natural gas to homes and businesses. |
| Ukrainian | "Трубки" (tube) is also a slang word for pants. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "نالی" (nalī) likely derives from the Sanskrit word "नाली" (nālī), both meaning "tube" or "channel". |
| Uzbek | "Naycha" originally meant "reed", but today it is more commonly used to mean "tube". |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, "ống" can either mean "tube" or "a small part of a bamboo stem used for holding things". |
| Welsh | The word “tiwb” can also refer to a drainpipe. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "ityhubhu" also means "a small, round hole in the ground, especially one made by an animal". |
| Yiddish | The word "רער" is also used to mean "noise", similar to the verb "to roar" in English. |
| Yoruba | In its figurative sense, "ọpọn" can also refer to "a path" or "a method". |
| Zulu | In Zulu, 'ishubhu' is also the name for a 'bottle' or 'cylinder.' |
| English | The word 'tube' comes from the Latin word 'tubus', meaning 'pipe' or 'channel'. |