Toba
# 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
* Petre Tobă (born 1964), Romanian politician
* Toshimasa Toba (born 1975), Japanese footballer
* Georgian Tobă (born 1989), Romanian footballer
* Andreas Toba (born 1990), German gymnast

## 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
