alibon

Hanunoo

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *qalibun. Compare Agutaynen kalibon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈlibun/ [ʔaˈli.bon]
• Rhymes: -ibun
• Syllabification: a‧li‧bon

Noun

alibon (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜮᜲᜪᜳᜨ᜴) (botany)

1. Ngai camphor (Blumea balsamifera)

Further reading

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 25
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qalibun”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI