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Cuba

/ˈkuba/

proper noun/ˈkuba/

Cuba (a country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean)

Donde la Cuba de ayer se vive hoy.Where the Cuba of yesterday is lived today.

Related: cubano, disciplinaria de Cuba, más se perdió en Cuba, verdolaga de Cuba

Disputed; likely from Taíno cubao (“abundant fertile land”) or coabana (“great place”).