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Tagalog
Pronunciation
Noun
abiw (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊᜒᜏ᜔) (obsolete)
- backbiting; talking behind someone's back
- Synonym: libak
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Further reading
- “abyo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 3.
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- 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 438: “Murmurar) Abio (pp) es lo que deçimos roer los çancajos o cortar de veſtir”