sabong-lupa

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• sabonglupa — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• sabunlupa, sabunglupa

Etymology

From sabon +‎ -g- +‎ lupa, literally “earth soap”.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˌboŋ ˈlupaʔ/ [sɐˌbon̪ ˈluː.pɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -upaʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧bong-lu‧pa

Noun

sabóng-lupà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜊᜓᜅ᜔ᜎᜓᜉ) (obsolete)

1. fuller's earth (fine clay used in fulling cloth)

Further reading

• 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 334: “Greda) Sabonglupa (pp) con que batanan paños. ay la alrrededor de Manila, duo dic: ſabõ, lupa . I. jabon de tierra”
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 212