toub

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic طُوب (ṭūb). Compare English adobe.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tub/

Noun

toub m (uncountable)

(Africa) mud brick, adobe
- 1921, Henri-René Lenormand, Le Simoun‎:
  derrière vos murs en toub
  behind your brick walls

Obokuitai

Noun

toub

breast

Further reading

Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)

Old High German

Alternative forms

toup, (Central German) doub

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *daub, whence also Old English dēaf, Old Norse daufr.

Adjective

toub

deaf

Descendants

Middle High German: toup; doup, douf
- Central Franconian: dauv, doov, daaf
  - Luxembourgish: daf
  - Hunsrik: daab
- German: taub
- Yiddish: טויב (toyb)

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