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Tagalog
Etymology
From sabon + -g- + lupa, literally “earth soap”.
Pronunciation
Noun
sabóng-lupà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜊᜓᜅ᜔ᜎᜓᜉ) (obsolete)
- fuller's earth (fine clay used in fulling cloth)
Further reading
- 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 334: “Greda) Sabonglupa (pp) con que batanan paños. ay la alrrededor de Manila, duo dic: ſabõ, lupa . I. jabon de tierra”
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 212