dambu
Hausa
Pronunciation
Noun
dambū m (possessed form dambun)
- a food made from flour (from various grains) or granulated meat, usually prepared with onion
Tagalog
Alternative forms
Etymology
Clipping of dambuhala (“huge; giant”), according to Zorc (1993). Also possibly a reference to Dumbo, a 1941 Disney film, where the main character is an elephant.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈdambu/ [ˈd̪am.bʊ]
- Rhymes: -ambu
- Syllabification: dam‧bu
Adjective
dambu (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜋ᜔ᜊᜓ) (slang)
Further reading
- Zorc, R. David; San Miguel, Rachel (1993), Tagalog Slang Dictionary, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN, page 37
Yamben
Noun
dambu
References
- Pick, Andrew (2019), “Yamben: A previously undocumented language of Madang”, in 5th Workshop on the Languages of Papua[1], Universitas Negeri Papua, Manokwari, West Papua, Indonesia