Cebuano
Pronunciation 1
- Hyphenation: u‧yab
- IPA(key): /ʔuˈjab/ [ʔʊˈjab]
Noun
uyáb
- boyfriend; girlfriend; lover
- Synonyms: (dated, sense "girlfriend") atab, trato
Verb
uyáb
- to be someone's lover, significant other, boyfriend or girlfriend; to be in a romantic relationship
- Synonym: trato
- to date
- Synonym: trato
- to court a man or woman
Pronunciation 2
- Hyphenation: u‧yab
- IPA(key): /ˈʔujab/ [ˈʔu.jɐb]
Verb
uyab
- to wash fish, meat, etc. using clean water
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:uyab.
References
- Fr. Juan Felis de la Encarnación (1851), Diccionario bisaya-español[1] (overall work in Cebuano and Spanish), Amigos del País, page 351
- John U. Wolff (1972), A dictionary of Cebuano Visayan[2] (overall work in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press