tabo

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tabuq.

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

tabò (Basahan spelling ᜆᜊᜓ)

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

   Synonym: harok

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

tabṑ m (plural tâbbā, possessed form tabòn)

1. scar

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

tábo

1. abdomen

   Synonym: luduy

• 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

tābō

1. dative/ablative singular of tābum

tabo

1. neck

Borrowed from Tagalog tabo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtabo/ [ˈt̪a.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: ta‧bo

tabo m (plural tabos)

1. (Philippines) tabo (traditional hygiene tool shaped like a dipper or scoop usually made of plastic)
2. (Philippines) act of scooping water or liquid with a dipper or scoop
3. (Philippines) mug made of coconut shell
4. (Philippines, historical) tabo (dipper or ladle made of coconut shell and bamboo)

• “tabo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Abella, Venancio María de (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños.‎^[2], 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 122

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”).

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

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 a dipper or scoop

   Synonym: pagtabo

3. (dialectal) mug made of coconut shell

   Synonym: lumbo

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

• → Spanish: tabo

• “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

• bato, abot, taob, bota

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.bo]

tabo

1. (intransitive) to catch water

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