Cuban

See also: cuban

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Taíno cubaobor.?

Taíno coabanabor.?

Spanish Cubabor.

English Cuba

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nosder.

Proto-Italic *-ānos

Latin -ānus

Old French -ainder.

Middle English -an

English -an

English Cuban

From Cuba + -an.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kyo͞oʹ-bən, IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːbən/
  • (Australia) IPA^(key): [ˈkjʉː.bən]
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈkjuː.bən]

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  • (US) IPA^(key): [ˈkju.bən]
• Rhymes: -uːbən
• Hyphenation: Cu‧ban

Noun

Cuban (plural Cubans)

2. A person from Cuba or of Cuban descent.

   His mother was a Cuban, and his father was a Spaniard; they came to the United States in 1918.

   • 2004 February 5, Tere Figueras, Luisa Yanez, “Cubans’ Buick pulled over at sea”, in The Miami Herald:

     Eleven Cubans in a vintage Buick — three of them the original “truckonauts” who tried a similar intrepid journey last year aboard a battered Chevy pickup — were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard early Wednesday and now face a return trip to the communist island.

4. A cigar made in Cuba.

   What a hypocrite! He talks big about law and order but then he'll also wave an embargoed Cuban in your face!

6. Ellipsis of Cuban sandwich.

   Can I please get a Cuban and a beer? Thank you!

7. A surname.

Translations

a person from Cuba

• Afrikaans: Kubaan (af)
• Asturian: cubanu (ast) m, cubana (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: kubalı
• Belarusian: кубі́нец m (kubínjec), кубі́нка f (kubínka)
• Catalan: cubà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古巴人 (Gǔbārén)

• Czech: Kubánec (cs) m
• Dutch: Cubaan (nl) m, Cubaanse (nl) f
• Esperanto: kubano
• Finnish: kuubalainen (fi)
• French: Cubain (fr) m
• Galician: cubano (gl) m, cubana f
• German: Kubaner (de) m, Kubanerin (de) f
• Greek: Κουβανός (el) m (Kouvanós), Κουβανή f (Kouvaní)
• Hebrew: קובני m (qubani), קובנית f (qubanit)
• Hungarian: kubai (hu)
• Icelandic: Kúbumaður, Kúbumenn, Kúbverji, Kúbverjar
• Ido: Kubano (io)
• Italian: cubano (it) m, cubana (it) f, cubani (it) m pl, cubane (it) f pl
• Macedonian: Кубанец m (Kubanec), Кубанка f (Kubanka)
• Marathi: क्यूबन (kyūban)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: cubaner m, kubaner m

  Nynorsk: cuban (nn) m, cubanar (nn) m, kuban (nn) m, kubanar (nn) m

• Polish: Kubańczyk (pl) m, Kubanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cubano (pt) m
• Romanian: cubanez (ro) m, cubaneză (ro) f
• Russian: куби́нец (ru) m (kubínec), куби́нка (ru) f (kubínka)
• Spanish: cubano (es)
• Swahili: Mkuba (sw)
• Turkish: Kübalı (tr)
• Ukrainian: куби́нець m (kubýnecʹ), куби́нка f (kubýnka)

Adjective

Cuban (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Cuba, the Cuban people or the Cuban dialect.
   • 2000 June 2, Adam Clymer, “THE ELIAN GONZALEZ CASE: THE POLITICS; While Conservatives and Liberals React, Gore and Bush Hedge on Ruling”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 September 2025:

     Conservative Republicans who had demanded an investigation and hearings when Elian, the 6-year-old Cuban boy, was forceably taken from the house of his great-uncle on April 22 quickly retreated when it was clear the public supported the government action.

Derived terms

• Afro-Cuban
• Cubamerican
• Cubanadian
• Cuban amazon
• Cuban blackbird
• Cuban black hawk
• Cuban boa
• Cuban bullfinch
• Cuban cedar
• Cuban crocodile
• Cuban crow
• Cuban dogfish
• Cuban eight
• Cuban emerald
• Cuban fever
• Cuban frita
• Cuban gnatcatcher
• Cuban grassquit
• Cuban green anole
• Cuban green woodpecker
• Cuban heel
• Cubanism
• Cuban itch
• Cubanization
• Cubanize
• Cuban jute
• Cuban kite
• Cuban lily
• Cuban macaw
• Cuban martin
• Cubanness
• Cuban nightjar
• Cuban oriole
• Cuban parakeet
• Cuban peso
• Cuban pewee
• Cuban pine
• Cuban pygmy-owl
• Cuban sandwich
• Cuban slider
• Cuban solenodon
• Cuban solitaire
• Cuban tody
• Cuban trogon
• Cuban twig anole
• Cuban vireo
• Cuban warbler
• Cubop

Translations

of or pertaining to Cuba

• Afrikaans: Kubaanse
• Asturian: cubanu (ast)
• Belarusian: кубі́нскі (kubínski)
• Catalan: cubà (ca)
• Czech: kubánský (cs)
• Dutch: Cubaans (nl)
• Finnish: kuubalainen (fi)
• French: cubain (fr)
• Galician: cubano (gl) m
• German: kubanisch (de)
• Greek: κουβανικός (kouvanikós)
• Hungarian: kubai (hu)
• Icelandic: kúbverskur (is)
• Ido: Kubana
• Italian: cubano (it)
• Macedonian: кубански (kubanski)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: cubansk, kubansk

  Nynorsk: cubansk (nn), kubansk (nn)

• Occitan: cuban
• Polish: kubański (pl) m
• Portuguese: cubano (pt)
• Romanian: cubanez (ro), cuban (rare)
• Russian: куби́нский (ru) (kubínskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: cùbanach
• Spanish: cubano (es)
• Swahili: Kikuba
• Ukrainian: куби́нський (kubýnsʹkyj)
• Welsh: Ciwbaidd

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Kuban

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Куба́нь (Kubánʹ).

Proper noun

Cuban m

1. Kuban (a river in Russia)