pulubi

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• polobe, polobi — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• plube — obsolete
• pulube

Etymology

Borrowed from Early Modern Spanish pobre (“poor”), with metathesis. Doublet of pobre, a later borrowing. Compare Hiligaynon porobe and Spanish probe.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /puˈlubi/ [pʊˈluː.bɪ]
• Rhymes: -ubi
• Syllabification: pu‧lu‧bi

Noun

pulubi (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜓᜊᜒ)

1. pauper; beggar; mendicant

   Synonyms: manlilimos, namamalimos, tanglo, dukha, mendigo, maralita, abukanin, pordiyosero, limosnero

Usage notes

• According to Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), a pulubi refers to a mendicant and therefore, poorer than a dukha.

Derived terms

• kapulubihan
• magpulubi
• mamulubi
• mapulubi
• pamumulubi
• pulubihin

See also

• salanta

Further reading

• “pulubi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 486: “Pobre ) [Polobe] (pp) C. mendigante eſte ſignificamas porque ducha no es muy pobre y eſte ſi”