Borrowed from Arabic كبابة
- IPA(key): /kəbəːbu/, [kəbəːbu]
ކައްބާބު • (kabbābu)
- Java pepper, cubeb
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku (2000) “ކައްބާބު”, in A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Colombo: The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, page 132