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ube

US/ˈuːbeɪ/

More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations

Philippines[ˈʔuː.bɛ]

ube noun: the purple yam, Dioscorea alata.

Noun (1)

ube (uncountable)

  1. The purple yam, Dioscorea alata.
    • Ube is a popular ingredient in cakes and ice-cream in the Philippines and Jamaica.

Noun (2) capitalized: UBE

UBE (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of unsolicited bulk email.

Origin of ube

Borrowed from Tagalog ube.

Questions about ube

What does ube mean?
Ube means the purple yam, Dioscorea alata.
What part of speech is ube?
Ube is a noun.
How do you pronounce ube?
Ube is pronounced [ˈʔuː.bɛ] (Philippines).

Words near ube in the dictionary

  1. Ubbonite
  2. Ubbonites
  3. Ubby-Dubby
  4. UBC
  5. UBCs
  6. ube
  7. Ubel
  8. ubenimex
  9. uber
  10. uber fan
  11. uber fans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ube (page history and authors); UBE (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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