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Telugu
Etymology
From Portuguese sabão (“soap”).
Pronunciation
Noun
సబ్బు • (sabbu) n (plural సబ్బులు)
- soap
References
- Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003) “Loanwords from western languages: Portuguese and English”, in The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 479
- "సబ్బు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1298