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