humba
Cebuano edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Hokkien 封肉 (hong-bah, “braised meat”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: hum‧ba
Noun edit
humba
- a dish similar to adobo but is sweeter and fattier, usually made using fried pork belly cooked in a sauce including garlic, onions, fermented black beans, spring onions, brown sugar, pepper corns, bay leaves, soy sauce and lemon-lime soft drink or pineapple juice
- (often offensive, humorous) a fat person
Verb edit
humba
- to cook humba
- to cook meat this way
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Cebuano humba, from Hokkien 封肉 (hong-bah, “braised meat”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /humˈbaʔ/, [hʊmˈbaʔ]
- Rhymes: -aʔ
- Syllabification: hum‧ba
Noun edit
humbâ (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)
- humba (Filipino braised pork dish popular among Visayans)
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References edit
- “humba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 25
- Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 137