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Borrowed from Tagalog ube.

• (Philippines) IPA^(key): [ˈʔuː.bɛ]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈuːbeɪ/

ube (uncountable)

1. The purple yam, Dioscorea alata.

   Ube is a popular ingredient in cakes and ice-cream in the Philippines and Jamaica.

• Bue, EBU

ube (Basahan spelling ᜂᜊᜒ)

1. purple yam (Dioscorea alata)

ube

1. partitive plural of uba

Borrowed from Latin ubi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.be/, /ˈu.bɛ/

ube

1. (interrogative adverb) where

   Ube me esas? ― Where am I? (direct question)

   Me ne savas ube me esas. ― I don't know where I am. (indirect question)

• adube (“to where”)
• irgube (“wherever”)
• nulube

• qua (“who (person)”)
  • quo (“what (thing)”)
  • qui (“who (plural)”)
  • pro quo (“why”)
• ube (“where”)
• kande (“when”)
• quala (“what kind of”)
  • quale (“how”)
• quanta (“how much”)
  • quanto (“quantity”)

ube

1. Rōmaji transcription of うべ

• ue
• uve

From Latin ubi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈube/

ube

1. where

   Synonym: unde

ube

1. (interrogative) where, whereabouts

• obi — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• ubi

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qubi. Compare Hawaiian uhi (“yam”), Malagasy ovy (“potato”), Malay ubi (“yam”), and Māori uwhi (“yam”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔube/ [ˈʔuː.bɛ]
• Rhymes: -ube
• Syllabification: u‧be

ube (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜊᜒ)

1. purple yam (Dioscorea alata)
2. purple (color/colour)

   Synonyms: morado, purpura, haban, haban-ube

   ube:  

• → English: ube

Colors in Tagalog · kulay (layout · text)

puti	abo, gris	itim
pula; krimson	kahel; kayumanggi	dilaw; krema
kulay-dayap	lungti, lungtian, berde
turkesa	bughaw-langit, asul	bughaw, asul
lila, biyoleta; nila, tayom	mahenta; ube, morado, haban, purpura	rosas, kalimbahin

• ubag

ube (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜊᜒ)

1. purple (color/colour)

   Synonyms: morado, purpura, haban, haban-ube

   ube:  

• “ube”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “ube”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qubi”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• 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 139: “Camotes) Vbi (pp) largos de apalmo [y mas] largo blancos por de dentro”

• IPA^(key): [ˈu.be]

ube

1. the slender sprat (Spratelloides gracilis)
2. the Indian anchovy (Stolephorus indicus)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh