pulubi
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from (c. 16th-18th century) Early Modern Spanish pobre (“poor”), an earlier borrowing that underwent metathesis. Doublet of pobre.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pulubi (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜓᜊᜒ)
Usage notes edit
- According to Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), a pulubi refers to a mendicant and therefore, poorer than a dukha.
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- “pulubi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 486: “Pobre ) [Polobe] (pp) C. mendigante eſte ſignificamas porque ducha no es muy pobre y eſte ſi”