kumbo

• combo — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kumˈboʔ/ [kʊmˈboʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: kum‧bo

Borrowed from Malay kumbu (“fish-basket of stiff bamboo wickerwork in shape like a watervessel”).

kumbô (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜋ᜔ᜊᜓ)

1. decanter; cruet

   Synonyms: dekanter, pitsel, gorgorita

Compare Ilocano kombo-kombo (“inflated; puffed up; spread like itch and rash”), Kapampangan kumbu (“to become raised; to potrude like an empanada, or a swollen cheek”), Bikol Central kumbo (“swelling or rising of dough when heated”), Aklanon kumbo (“banana fritter; banana chips”), Cebuano kumbo (“fritter”), and Hiligaynon kumbo (“banana fritter”).

kumbô (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜋ᜔ᜊᜓ) (obsolete)

1. blister

   Synonyms: paltos, ampolya, lintos

2. fritter

   Synonyms: maruya, priter

• “kumbo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914), Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 506.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835), Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 326: “Fruta) Combo (pc) de ſarten es vna tortilla medio redonda y frita en açeyte ſe en gueca”
• Zorc, David Paul (1981), Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 2, page 97