humba

• homba

From Hokkien 封肉 (hong-bah, “braised meat”).

• Hyphenation: hum‧ba

humba

1. a dish similar to adobo but is sweeter and fattier, usually made using fried pork belly cooked in a sauce including garlic, onions, fermented black beans, spring onions, brown sugar, pepper corns, bay leaves, soy sauce and lemon-lime soft drink or pineapple juice
2. (often offensive, humorous) a fat person

humba

1. to cook humba
2. to cook meat this way

• umba

Borrowed from Cebuano humba, from Hokkien 封肉 (hong-bah, “braised meat”).

• Hyphenation: hum‧ba
• IPA^(key): /humˈbaʔ/, [hʊmˈbaʔ]

humbâ (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

1. humba (Filipino braised pork dish of Visayan origin)

• humbain

• “humba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 25
• Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980), “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics (PDF), volume B, issue 71, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 137