tambok

Cebuano

Etymology

Compare Tausug tambuk.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tam‧bok

Noun

tambok

  1. adipose tissue; flab
  2. pork rind

Adjective

tambok

  1. fat, obese, overweight; chubby, plump
  2. (cooking, meat) having much fatty tissue
  3. having a thick body type
  4. (of soil) fertile

Verb

tambok

  1. to fatten up; to gain weight

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tambok.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambuk (“bulging, as the stomach”). Compare Bikol Central tambok, Cebuano tambok, and Tausug tambuk.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /tamˈbok/ [t̪ɐmˈbok̚]
  • Rhymes: -ok
  • Syllabification: tam‧bok

Noun

tambók (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜋ᜔ᜊᜓᜃ᜔)

  1. bulge; protuberance
    Synonym: umbok
  2. swelling; swollen part
    Synonyms: maga, pamamaga
  3. bulk; bulkiness
    Synonym: laki
  4. convexity
    Synonyms: umbok, kaumbukan

Derived terms

Further reading

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