Etymology

humba

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Today it means: A Filipino braised pork dish from the Philippines especially popular in the Visayas, traditionally made with fatty cuts of pork belly slow-cooked until very tender in soy sauce, vinegar, peppercorns, garlic, bay leaves, and fermented black beans (tausi) sweetened with muscovado sugar, and also commonly including hard-boiled eggs and banana blossoms. Full definition →

Cebuano humba ← Tagalog humba ← Hokkien 封肉
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The story

  1. Hokkien · derived from封肉“braised (pork) meat”
  2. Tagalog · borrowed fromhumba
  3. Cebuano · borrowed fromhumba
  4. English todayhumba

From Cebuano humba and Tagalog humba, from Hokkien 封肉 (hong-bah, “braised (pork) meat”).

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