From root: tubig
Conjugations
Past (Completed)
nanubig
na-nu-BIG
leaked fluid
Present (Incomplete)
nanunubig
na-nu-nu-BIG
leaking fluid
Future (Contemplated)
manunubig
ma-nu-nu-BIG
will leak fluid
Usage Note
Manubig is primarily used in medical or physiological contexts, most commonly to describe the breaking of the amniotic sac (water breaking) before childbirth. It can also refer to a sore, blister, or wound that has started to ooze or weep clear fluid.
Examples
" Nagsimulang manubig ang sugat. "
Natural Translation
The wound started to ooze fluid.
Literal Translation
Started to-ooze-fluid the wound.
" Mahirap kapag nagsimulang manubig ang bubong. "
Natural Translation
It’s difficult when the roof starts to leak water/fluid.
Literal Translation
Hard when start-linker leak-fluid the roof.
" Dinala kaagad ng asawa niya sa ospital ang nanganganak na ina nang magsimulang manubig ito kaninang madaling-araw. "
Natural Translation
Her husband immediately took the laboring mother to the hospital when her water started to break early this morning.
Literal Translation
Took immediately the husband her to hospital the giving-birth mother when start-linker leak-fluid this earlier dawn.
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