ube

Borrowed from Tagalog ube.

ube (uncountable)

1. The purple yam, Dioscorea alata.

   Ube is a popular ingredient in cakes and ice-cream in the Philippines and Jamaica.

• Bue, EBU

ube

1. partitive plural of uba

Borrowed from Latin ubi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.be/, /ˈu.bɛ/

ube

1. (interrogative adverb) where

   Ube me esas? ― Where am I? (direct question)

   Me ne savas ube me esas. ― I don't know where I am. (indirect question)

• adube (“to where”)
• irgube (“wherever”)
• nulube

• qua (“who (person)”)
  • quo (“what (thing)”)
  • qui (“who (plural)”)
  • pro quo (“why”)
• ube (“where”)
• kande (“when”)
• quala (“what kind of”)
  • quale (“how”)
• quanta (“how much”)
  • quanto (“quantity”)

• ue
• uve

From Latin ubi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈube/

ube

1. where

   Synonym: unde

ube

1. (interrogative) where, whereabouts

• ite/chite
• cale
• proite/abbite
• cando
• cantu
• comente
• chie/chene/chine

• ubi

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qubi. Compare Hawaiian uhi (“yam”), Malagasy ovy (“potato”), Malay ubi (“yam”), and Maori uwhi (“yam”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔube/, [ˈʔu.bɛ]
• Hyphenation: u‧be

ube (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜊᜒ)

1. purple yam (Dioscorea alata)
2. purple (color/colour)

   Synonyms: morado, purpura, haban, haban-ube

   ube:  

ube (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜊᜒ)

1. purple (color/colour)

   Synonyms: morado, purpura, haban, haban-ube

   ube:  

• “ube” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “ube”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*qubi”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

• IPA^(key): [ˈu.be]

ube

1. the slender sprat (Spratelloides gracilis)
2. the Indian anchovy (Stolephorus indicus)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh