pulubi

• polobe, polobi — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• plube — obsolete
• pulube

Borrowed from (c. 16th-18th century) Early Modern Spanish pobre (“poor”), an earlier borrowing that underwent metathesis. Doublet of pobre.

• IPA^(key): /puˈlubi/, [pʊˈlu.bɪ]
• Hyphenation: pu‧lu‧bi

pulubi (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜓᜊᜒ)

1. pauper; beggar; mendicant

   Synonyms: nanlilimos, tanglo, dukha, mendigo, maralita, abukanin

• According to Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), a pulubi refers to a mendicant and therefore, poorer than a dukha.

• salanta

• “pulubi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 486: “Pobre ) [Polobe] (pp) C. mendigante eſte ſignificamas porque ducha no es muy pobre y eſte ſi”