Also tooba. [Arab. (in Koran xiii. 28) ṭūbah, supposed to be a. Aramaic ṭūbā beatitude, Heb. ṭobah. Some commentators suppose a tree to be meant, the opinion cited by Sale, and adopted in the quots.] mythical tree growing in the Mohammedan paradise: see quots. Also tuba-tree.
1817. Moore, Lalla R., Paradise & Peri, 622. My feast is now of the Tooba Tree, Whose scent is the breath of Eternity!
1833. A. Crichton, Hist. Arabia, I. vii. 317. The Tooba, or tree of happiness, so large that the fleetest horse could not gallop in a hundred years from one end of its shadow to the other.
1875. Emerson, Lett. & Soc. Aims, viii. 206. In [a Persian] poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix alighting on Tuba, the tree of Life.
1894. W. R. Thayer, Poems, 26. The odors of blooming tuba-trees Thro’ the gardens steal.
