tabo

See also: Tabo, tabō, and täbö

Bikol Central

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tabuq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaboʔ/ [ˈta.boʔ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧bo

Noun

tabò (Basahan spelling ᜆᜊᜓ)

1. water dipper
2. act or manner of dipping for water

   Synonym: harok

Derived terms

• magtabo
• tabuan
• tabuon

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tá.bòː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tə́.bòː]

Noun

tabṑ m (plural tâbbā, possessed form tabòn)

1. scar

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtabo/ [ˈtaː.bo]
• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: ta‧bo

Noun

tábo

1. abdomen

   Synonym: luduy

References

• Morice Vanoverbergh (1982), “Kankanay Anatomy: A Lexicon”, in Asian Folklore Studies‎, volume 41, number 1 (overall work in English and Kankanaey), Nanzan University, →DOI, page 84

Latin

Noun

tābō

1. dative/ablative singular of tābum

Meriam

Noun

tabo

1. neck

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog tabo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtabo/ [ˈt̪a.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: ta‧bo

Noun

tabo m (plural tabos)

1. (Philippines) tabo (traditional hygiene tool shaped like a dipper or scoop usually made of plastic)
2. (Philippines) act of scooping water or liquid with a dipper or scoop
3. (Philippines) mug made of coconut shell
4. (Philippines, historical) tabo (dipper or ladle made of coconut shell and bamboo)

See also

• balde
• cangilón
• jarro
• taza
• timba
• vaso

Further reading

• “tabo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Abella, Venancio María de (1874), Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños., 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Philippine Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 122

Tagalog

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tabuq. Compare Bikol Central tabo, Cebuano kabo, Malay cebok (“water dipper”), and Urak Lawoi' เจอบุ (cebuq, “to dip out water”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtaboʔ/ [ˈt̪aː.boʔ]
• Rhymes: -aboʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧bo

Noun

tabò (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊᜓ)

1. tabo (traditional hygiene tool shaped like a dipper or scoop usually made of plastic)

   Synonyms: panabo, pantabo, (dated) kaltek

2. act of scooping water or liquid with a dipper or scoop

   Synonym: pagtabo

3. (dialectal) mug made of coconut shell

   Synonym: lumbo

4. (historical) tabo (dipper or ladle made of coconut shell and bamboo)

Derived terms

• pagtabo
• panabo
• pantabo
• tabuin
• tumabo

Descendants

• → Spanish: tabo

See also

• kaltek

Further reading

• “tabo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tabuq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Anagrams

• bato, abot, taob, bota

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.bo]

Verb

tabo

1. (intransitive) to catch water

Conjugation

Conjugation of tabo

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		totabo	fotabo	mitabo
2nd person		notabo	nitabo
3rd person	masculine	otabo	itabo yotabo (archaic)
	feminine	motabo
	neuter	itabo

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh