BEBOT

The root word is likely bubot.

Bebot is the title of a 2006 song by the Black-Eyed Peas.

The line goes, Ikaw ang aking bebot, which can be translated as “You are my baby,” but before this song came out, that wasn’t a common way of expressing the sentiment. You can also translate bebot as the slang word “boo” as in “My Boo” by Usher and Alicia Keys.

In the music video’s introduction to the song, the wailing Filipino woman was calling down apl.de.ap (“ah-pohl” is the Filipino pronunciation of the English word apple).

She then asks the BEP’s Taboo if he likes chicken adobo.

Hoy pare, pakinggan n’yo ako. Heto na ang tunay na Pilipino
Yo homie, listen up. Here comes the real Filipino

The standard Tagalog word for ‘woman’ is babae.

A recent slang word for “baby” in the sense of a girlfriend or boyfriend is beh or bhe (from bae).

Another recent Filipino slang word for “girl” is girlaloo.