pabula

English

Noun

pabula

1. plural of pabulum

Latin

Noun

pābula

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pābulum

References

• pabula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Verb

pabula

1. inflection of pabular:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fábula, from Latin fābula. Doublet of abla and habla.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpabula/ [ˌpaː.bʊˈla]
• Rhymes: -abula
• Syllabification: pa‧bu‧la

Noun

pábulá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜊᜓᜎ)

1. fable
2. fiction

   Synonyms: likhang-isip, kathang-isip

Further reading

• “pabula” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[1], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “pabula”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018