lukba

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• lucba, lucma
• locma, locba — archaic

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Hokkien [Term?], possibly Hokkien 鹿肉脯 (lo̍k-bah-pó͘, “dried deer meat; dried venison”), 鹿肉 (lo̍k-bah, “deer meat; venison”), or 滷肉／卤肉 (ló͘-bah, “braised meat”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /lukˈbaʔ/ [lʊkˈbaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: luk‧ba

Noun

lukbâ (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜃ᜔ᜊ)

1. jerked meat

   Synonyms: tapa, pindang

2. jerking of meat

   Synonym: pagtatapa

Derived terms

• lukbain
• nilukba

 

Adjective

lukbâ (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜃ᜔ᜊ)

1. jerked

   Synonyms: nilukba, tapa, tinapa

Further reading

• “lukba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “鹿肉”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “鹿肉脯”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[2] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[3] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[4] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot