tebili verb English. Small, black-backed, reddish-sided, white-bellied lizard; gen. for various small lizards. Example sentence: Subanen. Kanugdiin daw, ki getaw, lumunu. Laak mikesaba' dun ki tebili, pu' kali' daw pektalu' su tebili, iin dawi mauya'an nu getaw, sumaa' mpauk daw lumunu. English. Long ago, it is said that people shed their skin. (I.e., the only reproduction was old people's shedding their skin and becoming young again.) But the lizard fouled it up, because he said that what the people had said was that they wanted to reproduce, and that they didn't want to shed their skins. (From legend.). In group with: bekukang; kulutan; menentuy; pulailek Generic. tubu'