ugba verb English. Heats s.t. in order to make it malleable, as metals; crumbly, as shells, as in making lime; hard, as clay. Example sentence: Subanen. Laung ni Apu', Ama', sa' mekaita' ita tuay, sumaluy ita dun, pu' ugbaanen daw ig lukabanen. English. Father, Grandpa said that if we see some oysters (at market), we should buy some. He's going to heat their shells to make lime. Generic. titi'