humba
Cebuano
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: hum‧ba
Noun
humba
- 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
- (often offensive, humorous) a fat person
Tagalog
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /humˈbaʔ/ [hʊmˈbaʔ]
- Rhymes: -aʔ
- Syllabification: hum‧ba
Derived terms
- humbain
See also
- adobo
- estopado
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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