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tabad

Pronunciation: /ˈtabad/

“tabad” is a Tagalog word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. water added to dilute an alcoholic drink (especially tuba)
  2. act of adding water to dilute an alcoholic drink (especially tuba)
  3. bloodletting; phlebotomy

Etymology

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”).

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