tabad

From Tagbanwa, Central Tagbanwa, Calamian Tagbanwa tabad.

• Hyphenation: ta‧bad

tabad

1. a kind of rice wine

Possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tabaR (“tasteless, insipid; powerless; antidote, as against snakebite”). Compare Cebuano tabad, Malay tawar, and Old Javanese tawa (“powerless, weak, inefficacious, harmless”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtabad/ [ˈta.bɐd]
• Rhymes: -abad
• Syllabification: ta‧bad

tabad (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊᜇ᜔)

1. water added to dilute an alcoholic drink (especially tuba)

   Synonym: banto

2. act of adding water to dilute an alcoholic drink (especially tuba)

• tabaran

• tabag

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈbad/ [tɐˈbad]
• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: ta‧bad

tabád (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜊᜇ᜔)

1. bloodletting; phlebotomy

   Synonyms: pagtatabad, padugo