OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 273

rubah

•  to fall down; collapse(eng).omvallen; instorten(nld).

ana jou bobato si ofsir moi-moi imarubah hangu ibrenti toma ngarah lamo mojuthe bobatos and officers did not leave and remained in the big gate(eng)

Note: also to disperse or split up, with reference to people

Origin: Malay