| Form. | ||
| Kanakanabu | cuvuʔu | bamboo shoot |
| Saaroa | cuvuʔu | bamboo shoot |
| Paiwan | tsuvuq | a free-standing sprout; bamboo sprout |
| WMP | ||
| Itbayaten | tovo | shoot (as of bamboo), growth, shoot |
| Isneg | mag-túbo | to sprout, to shoot, to germinate |
| Itawis | túhu | sprout |
| mat-túhu | to grow (of plants) | |
| Bontok | túbu | to sprout leaves; to grow; a leaf |
| Ifugaw | tūbu | new growth, of a plant, weed, grass, tree growing from a seed; of a branch or plant stalk; of a fingernail, hair, tooth (also refers to new growth issuing from a pit, nut or fruit such as coconut |
| túbu | leaves of trees, shrubs, and plants in general; not applied to leaves which serve for special purposes, such as chewing leaves or banana leaves | |
| Kankanaey | túbo | leaf |
| Ifugaw (Batad) | tūbu | new growth, of a plant, weed, grass, tree growing from a seed; of a branch or plant stalk; of a fingernail, hair, tooth (also refers to new growth issuing from a pit, nut or fruit such as coconut |
| Pangasinan | tobó | growth; to sprout, grow, increase |
| Ilokano | túbo | sprout, shoot (from a seed) |
| Kapampangan | túbuʔ | grow; gain, profit |
| Tagalog | túboʔ | a sprout; a shoot of a plant; growth; what has grown or is growing |
| Hanunóo | túbuʔ | growth, growing |
| Aklanon | túboʔ | to grow, sprout, develop; increase; interest on loan, growth |
| Hiligaynon | pag-túbuʔ | growth |
| mag-túbuʔ | to grow, germinate, sprout | |
| Cebuano | túbuʔ | grow, become larger; earn interest; develop feelings; for water, dough or land to rise; growth; interest on a loan; leavening agent; wall stud of bamboo |
| Manobo (Western Bukidnon) | tuvuʔ | of a seed or plant, to sprout or grow |
| Palauan | dubəʔ | coconut sprouting on ground |
| Mansaka | toboʔ | to grow (as plants) |
| Sangir | tuwo | young, still unfurled palm leaves; to grow |
| Kayan (Uma Juman) | tuvu | to grow (intr.) |
| tubu | to grow (intr.); thing grown; rising, of the sun | |
| mata-n do tubu | direction of the rising sun | |
| nubu | to grow (trans.) | |
| Toba Batak | tubu | to arise, be born, grow; child; sprout |
| Iban | tumboh | shoot up, grow, arise; begin, broach (subject); call together; organize; form (group or society) |
| Malay | peñakit ke-tumboh-an | skin eruption; smallpox |
| tumboh | plant-growth; sprouting up; eruption (of plants springing up out of the ground, and pustules on the skin) | |
| tumboh-tumboh-an | things that grow; plants; crops; eruptions | |
| Mongondow | tubuʔ | young or new leaves in general |
| Kayan | tuvu | to grow (intr.) |
| mata-n do tubu | direction of the rising sun | |
| tubu | to grow (intr.); thing grown; rising, of the sun | |
| nubu | to grow (trans.) | |
| Old Javanese | tuwuh | growth, growing; life, age, span of life; condition of life, lot; body |
| Javanese | tuwuh | outgrowth, sprout; fig., descendant; to come into existence, grow |
| Bonerate | tumbu | to grow |
| Balinese | tubuh | a young coconut palm which is about to fruit |
| tumbuh | the first shoot of a plant; to grow, sprout, come up, emerge (of teeth); be born | |
| Bikol | mag-t'uboʔ | germinate, sprout; to grow or mature (plants); gain or accrue interest (money) |
| túbuʔ | interest (as on money in a bank) | |
| Proto-Sangiric | tubo | to grow |
| CMP | ||
| Kola | tuf | to grow |
| SHWNG | ||
| Gimán | tub | to grow |
| OC | ||
| Hawaiian | kupu | sprout, growth; offspring; upstart, as one rising suddenly and conspicuously to high position; to sprout, grow, increase; to occur |
| Nukuoro | dubu | exceed (the amount required), too (e.g. many) |
| Kove | tuvu | to grow |
| Piva | tubu | to swell |
| Yabem | tôp | to grow |
| Tuvaluan | tupu | shoot (of a plant); grow; happen; be exceeded (of numbers; ‘more than twenty’) |
| Motu | tubu | grow; ferment; swell |
| tuhu-tuhu | young shoot | |
| Hula | upu | to grow |
| Arosi | subu | to begin to grow; to burst, of seed |
| Suau | tubu | to grow |
| Anuta | tupu | to grow |
| Rennellese | tupu | sprout, as of yams, panna, coconuts; life principle and growth, of children; to sprout, grow; to rise, as a boil, cooked rice or a tidal wave; to sprout forth |
| Rotuman | fupu | to grow, to increase; growth, increase; interest (on money lent, etc.); persons of the same or about the same age |
| fup-ʔaki | to cause to spring up or grow; to originate or create; to propose, move (a resolution) | |
| Samoan | tupu | grow; arise, break out; happen, occur; growth |
| Futunan | tupu | to grow, increase, sprout, spring up; bud; to reveal; more (in counting) |
| Fijian | tuvu | shoot up, of a tree |
| tuvu-ka-na | the top of a tree | |
| tubu | grow, increase, spring up (of plants) | |
| Niue | tupu | to grow, spring up; to be descended from |
| tupu noa | by chance, to grow by itself | |
| Tongan | tupu | to grow up, spring up or come into existence, originate; to grow, increase in size, etc. (of cake, rice, etc.) to rise or swell; to bring in profit; growing, bringing in profit; and more, and one or more over; coming into existence, originating; origin, growing, growth, etc. |
| Rarotongan | tupu | growth of any kind; a growth, a gradual increase; progress or development; a product, as of the earth; a sprout or growing shoot, a germ inception, a beginning, etc.; occurrence, that which happens, etc.; to grow, to become enlarged by natural process, to advance towards maturity; to produce, as the earth; to sprout forth or to germinate; to occur or to happen |
| Maori | tupu | grow, increase; spring, issue, begin; shoot, bud; growth; social position; genuine, own |
| Tolai | tubu | to grow, of men or animals but not plants |
| OC | ||
| Hawaiian | hoʔo-kupu | to cause growth, sprouting; to sprout |
| Arosi | haʔa-subu | to beget |
| Rennellese | haka-tupu | to make a sprout or life principle thrive |
| WMP | ||
| Itbayaten | t-om-ovo | grow up, germinate, sprout |
| Bontok | t<um>úbu | sprout leaves, grow |
| Ifugaw | t-um-ūbu | for something to issue new growth |
| Kankanaey | t-um-úbo | to shoot, to spring up, to sprout, sprout forth, to bud, grow |
| Ifugaw (Batad) | t-um-ūbu | for something to issue new growth |
| Ilokano | t-um-úbo | to sprout, to shoot, to germinate |
| Kapampangan | t-um-úbuʔ | to grow, to gain |
| Hanunóo | t-um-úbuʔ | grow |
| Sangir | t<um>uwo | to grow |
| Sundanese | t<um>umbuh | to shoot up, of plants |
| Old Javanese | t<um>uwuh | to grow, live; come out, arise (feelings); that which grows or lives, living creature |
| WMP | ||
| Itbayaten | pa-tovo-en | to let grow |
| Bikol | pa-tuboʔ-on | invest money so that it gains interest |
| WMP | ||
| Itbayaten | tovo-an | ends (of cloth, rope, etc. |
| Tagalog | tubúʔ-an | to be overgrown; to grow on or over something; to sprout or grow out from; to put forth |
| Toba Batak | tubu-an | give birth, beget |
| Old Javanese | tuwu-tuwuh-an | plants |
| tuwuh-an | place of growing | |
| Javanese | tuwuh-an | ceremonial decoration for weddings symbolizing prosperity and fertility |
| Bikol | tubóʔ-an | add interest to |