humba

Cebuano

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Hokkien 封肉 (hong-bah, braised meat).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: hum‧ba

Noun

humba

  1. a dish similar to adobo but is sweeter and fattier, usually made using fried pork belly cooked in a sauce including garlic, onions, fermented black beans, spring onions, brown sugar, pepper corns, bay leaves, soy sauce and lemon-lime soft drink or pineapple juice
  2. (often offensive, humorous) a fat person

Verb

humba

  1. to cook humba
  2. to cook meat this way

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Cebuano humba, from Hokkien 封肉 (hong-bah, braised meat).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /humˈbaʔ/ [hʊmˈbaʔ]
  • Rhymes: -aʔ
  • Syllabification: hum‧ba

Noun

humbâ (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

  1. humba (Filipino braised pork dish popular among Visayans)

Derived terms

  • humbain

See also

References

  • humba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 25
  • Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 137
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