Also Malaybabi tanah ‘insect, unident.’. Presumably a reduplication of *babuy ‘pig’. Although the conceptual basis for a connection between pigs and sowbugs remains obscure, it is noteworthy that a similar association appears in e.g. Spanish cochina ‘sow’, cochinilla ‘sowbug’ (lit. "little sow"), and, of course, in the English word itself.