Type Settlement
Usage English, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Slovak, Somali, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Uzbek
Scripts جوبا(Arabic) ጁባ(Amharic) Ջուբա(Armenian) জুবা(Bengali) ჯუბა(Georgian) ג׳ובה(Hebrew) जुबा(Hindi, Marathi) ジュバ(Japanese Katakana) 주바(Korean Hangul) ജൂബ(Malayalam) Жуба(Mongolian Cyrillic, Uzbek Cyrillic) ਜੂਬਾ(Gurmukhi)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈd͡ʒu.bə/(English) /d͡ʒuː.baː/(Arabic) /d͡ʒu.ˈbɑ/(Armenian) /ˈju.bɑ/(Finnish) /d͡ʒu.ba/(Georgian) /d͡ʒʊ.bäː/(Hindi) /d͡ʑɨᵝ.ba̠/(Japanese) /t͡ɕu.ba̠/(Korean) [key·simplify]
Other Forms FormsCuba (Azerbaijani, Turkish), Djoeba (Dutch), Djouba (French), Dschuba (German), Dzhuba (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian), Dzsuba (Hungarian), Dżuba (Polish), Džuba (Bosnian, Czech, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovene), Džūba (Latvian), Giuba (Italian), Ġuba (Maltese), Joeba (Afrikaans), Júba (Icelandic), Tzoumpa (Greek), Xhuba (Albanian), Yuba (Spanish), Zhuba (Chinese)
Meaning & History
Of uncertain origin, from the Nilotic Bari language of South Sudan. It is the name of the capital and largest city of South Sudan, as well as the former village on its site.