Borrowing from Sanskrit. For a detailed account of the complex history of this word, which generally refers to copper in island Southeast Asia, but to a copper-gold alloy in the archaeological cultures of the Andes cf. Blust (1992a).
| WMP | ||
| Tagalog | tumbága | copper and gold alloy |
| Cebuano | tumbága | copper, or a copper alloy that is still copper-colored |
| Tausug | tumbaga | brass, copper, bronze |
| Simalur | tambago | copper |
| Malay | təmbaga | brass; copper; copper-colored |
| Tontemboan | tambaga | copper |
| Mongondow | tambaga | copper |
| Tae' | tambaga | red copper |
| Wolio | tambaga | copper, bronze; copper-colored: brown, yellow, orange, red, blond |
| Muna | tambaga | copper, bronze |
| Makassarese | tambaga | red copper |
| Sundanese | tambaga | red copper |
| Bikol | tumbága | copper |