Yakan - tuba'

tuba'

Coconut wine.

A fermented drink made of the sap of the coconut tree collected from the growing part of the tree.

Lango a'a iyan pegge' bakas nginum tuba'.

That person is drunk because he drank coconut wine.

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To tap coconut palms (and make wine out of the sap).

Hāp lahing miya'an tinuba'an, hatu ekka tuba'ne.

That coconut tree is good to be tapped; perhaps it has much sap.

He taps coconut palms (and makes wine) until now.

Niya' ne nuba'an lahing sōng tinuba'ankun.

Someone is already tapping the coconut palm that I was going to tap.