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Cebuano
Pronunciation
Verb
ibog
- to be romantically attracted to someone
- to envy
Hanunoo
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ibəʀ (“saliva in the mouth; drool; desire; crave; lust for”). Compare Tagalog ibig.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʔibuɡ/
- Rhymes: -ibuɡ
- Syllabification: i‧bog
Noun
ibog (Hanunoo spelling ᜡᜪᜳᜤ᜴)
- liking; desire; wish; love
Derived terms
Further reading
- Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 39
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ibeR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
Sambali
Noun
ibog
- envy