ibog

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: i‧bog

Verb

ibog

1. to be romantically attracted to someone
2. to envy

Hanunoo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ibəʀ (“saliva in the mouth; drool; desire; crave; lust for”). Compare Tagalog ibig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔibuɡ/ [ˈʔi.boɡ]
• Rhymes: -ibuɡ
• Syllabification: i‧bog

Noun

ibog (Hanunoo spelling ᜡᜪᜳᜤ᜴)

1. liking; desire; wish; love

Derived terms

• ibog sabihin
• umibog

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 39
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ibeR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Sambali

Noun

ibog

1. envy