malbas

Cebuano

Alternative forms

  • marbas

Etymology

    Borrowed from Spanish malvas, plural of Spanish malva, from Latin malva.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /malˈbas/ [mɐl̪ˈbas̪]
    • Hyphenation: mal‧bas

    Noun

    malbás (Badlit spelling ᜋᜎ᜔ᜊᜐ᜔)

    1. Indian mallow (Abutilon indicum)
      Synonym: tabing

    See also

    Further reading

    • “malbas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
    • “malbas” in Pinoy Dictionary, Cyberspace.ph, 2010-2022.
    • “Malbas”, in StuartXchange, January 2018
    • John U. Wolff (1972), A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan‎[1] (overall work in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press

    Tagalog

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Spanish malvas, plural of malva, from Latin malva, possibly from a substrate language.

      Pronunciation

      • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /malˈbas/ [mɐlˈbas]
      • Rhymes: -as
      • Syllabification: mal‧bas

      Noun

      malbás (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎ᜔ᜊᜐ᜔)

      1. Indian mallow (Abutilon indicum)
        Synonyms: tabing, giling-gilingan, kuwa-kuwakuhan, palis

      Derived terms

      • malbas-tigbalang

      Further reading

      • “malbas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
      • “Malbas”, in StuartXchange, January 2018