tabo

See also: Tabo, tabō, and täbö

Bikol Central

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tabuq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaboʔ/ [ˈta.boʔ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧bo

Noun

tabò (Basahan spelling ᜆᜊᜓ)

1. water dipper
2. act or manner of dipping for water

   Synonym: harok

Derived terms

• magtabo
• tabuan
• tabuon

 

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tá.bòː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tə́.bòː]

Noun

tabṑ m (plural tâbbā, possessed form tabòn)

1. scar

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

• (Standard Kankanaey) IPA^(key): /ˈtabo/ [ˈtaː.bo]
• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: ta‧bo

Noun

tábo

1. abdomen

   Synonym: luduy

References

• Morice Vanoverbergh (1982) “Kankanay Anatomy: A Lexicon”, in Asian Folklore Studies‎^[1], volume 41, number 1 (overall work in English and Kankanaey), Nanzan University, →DOI, page 84

Latin

Noun

tābō

1. dative/ablative singular of tābum

Meriam

Noun

tabo

1. neck

Tagalog

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tabuq. Compare Bikol Central tabo, Cebuano kabo, Malay cebok (“water dipper”), and Urak Lawoi' เจอบุ (cebuq, “to dip out water”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtaboʔ/ [ˈt̪aː.boʔ]
• Rhymes: -aboʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧bo

Noun

tabò (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊᜓ)

1. tabo (traditional hygiene tool shaped like a dipper or scoop usually made of plastic)

   Synonyms: panabo, pantabo, (dated) kaltek

2. act of scooping water or liquid with such a tool

   Synonym: pagtabo

3. (dialectal) mug made of coconut shell

   Synonym: lumbo

4. (historical) tabo (dipper made of coconut shell and bamboo)

Derived terms

• pagtabo
• panabo
• pantabo
• tabuin
• tumabo

 

See also

• kaltek

 

Further reading

• “tabo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tabuq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Anagrams

• bato, abot, taob, bota

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.bo]

Verb

tabo

1. (intransitive) to catch water

Conjugation

Conjugation of tabo
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	totabo	fotabo	mitabo
2nd	notabo	nitabo
3rd	Masculine	otabo	itabo, yotabo†
Feminine	motabo
Neuter	itabo
† - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh