| WMP | ||
| Ilokano | kubó | hut, cottage; kind of mudfish trap |
| Ayta Abellan | kobo | small shelter |
| Tagalog | kúbo | a hut shaped like a cube; a one room country dwelling |
| Tombonuwo | kubu | fortress |
| Toba Batak | hubu | entrenchment, fortification that the beleaguered inhabitants of a village erect against the enemy |
| Karo Batak | ŋ-k<er>ubu-i | to surround and attack |
| ŋ-kubu | to surround | |
| Malay | kubu | stockade; semi-permanent fortification, of wooden defenses strengthened with earthwork (masonry forts are ); small hut or shelter |
| Old Javanese | kuwu | dwelling, housing, quarters, lodgings (often of temporarily erected housing or buildings at feasts or pleasure trips); tents, encampment; but also residence of (high official in the court), (king’s counselor, minister) |
| Javanese | kuwu | village military official in charge of water |
| pa-kuwo-n | military encampment; home or estate of the above official; village | |
| Balinese | kubu | free-standing hut, almost always the hut built on his rice fields by the owner |
| Sasak | kubu | field hut |
| CMP | ||
| Sika | kuwu | small hut in the fields |