Toba

Toba may refer to:

Languages

• Toba Sur language, spoken in South America
• Batak Toba, spoken in Indonesia

People

• Toba people, indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco in South America
• Toba Batak people, a sub-ethnic group of Batak people from North Sumatra, Indonesia
• Tuoba (拓拔), an early name for a clan of the Xianbei people in ancient China
• Toba Sōjō (1053–1140), Japanese astronomer and artist-monk
• Emperor Toba, emperor of Japan
• Toba Spitzer, lesbian rabbi in Arizona, USA
• Andreas Toba (born 1990), German gymnast
• Mika Toba (born 1961), Japanese katazome dye artist
• Toshimasa Toba (born 1975), Japanese footballer
• Georgian Tobă (born 1989), Romanian footballer
• Petre Tobă (born 1964), Romanian politician

Places

• Toba, an area in Northern Sumatra that is now included in the Toba Samosir Regency
• Lake Toba, a lake in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and site of the volcanic Toba eruption 75,000 years ago
• Toba catastrophe theory, according to which modern human evolution was affected by the Toba eruption
• Toba, Mie, a city in Mie prefecture, Japan
• Toba (Nova Crnja), a village near Nova Crnja, Serbia
• Toba, Tibet
• Toba, Jhelum, a village in Pakistan
• Toba Tek Singh, a district city in Punjab, Pakistan
• La Toba, central Spain

Other

• Crataegus × mordenensis 'Toba', cultivar of the Morden Hawthorn
• Japanese gunboat Toba of the 1930s–40s
• Month of Tobi, or Touba, the fifth month of the Coptic calendar
• Theatre Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.), a major black vaudeville circuit
• Tobă, a traditional Romanian sausage
• Torsion-Bar Antenna (TOBA), a proposed gravitational wave detector
• Istighfar, a form of repentance sometimes invoked by the word "Toba"
• Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA), annually reviews/establishes Grading for Thoroughbred horse races in North America

See also

• Tova (disambiguation)
• Tobas, Bolivian dance