gelubalu adjective English. Of fruit, almost ripe. Example sentence: Subanen. Su pengya, kalabung nda'u upu'ay, pu' gelubalu pa laak, painugen ku pa sia. Bena' nandaw mipuli'u ditu, mibeleng na, pigdau na getaw. English. Yesterday I didn't pick the pineapple, because it wasn't quite ripe, and I wanted to let it ripen. When I went back there today, it was gone, some person stole it.