Tagalog

See also: tagalog

English

Etymology

From Tagalog Tagalog.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: təgäʹlŏg, təgălʹəg; IPA(key): /təˈɡɑːlɒɡ/, /təˈɡæləɡ/
  • (General American) enPR: təgäʹləg, təgäʹlôg; IPA(key): /təˈɡɑləɡ/, /təˈɡɑlɔɡ/
  • Hyphenation: Ta‧ga‧log
  • (file)

Proper noun

Tagalog

  1. A language spoken in the Philippines, especially in areas of central to southern Luzon.
    Synonym: Tagal

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Tagalog (plural Tagalogs or Tagalog)

  1. A member of the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group.
    Synonyms: Tagal, (female) Tagala
  2. (chiefly Cebu) a speaker of the Tagalog language

Translations

Adjective

Tagalog (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the Tagalogs.
    Synonym: (female) Tagala

Translations

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Tagalog terms
  • Appendix:Tagalog Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Tagalog

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaːɡaːlɔk/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Tagalog n

  1. Tagalog (language)

Tagalog

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly:

  • From taga- (native of) + alog (ford).[1]
  • From taga- (native of) + ilog (river).
  • From Tagal, the name of some tribes in Borneo or Sumatra.[2]

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /taˈɡaloɡ/ [tɐˈɣa.loɡ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aloɡ
  • Syllabification: Ta‧ga‧log

Noun

Tagalog (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔)

  1. Tagalog language
    Synonym: (obsolete) wikang-tao
  2. Tagalog (person)
    Synonym: (female) Tagala

Adjective

Tagalog (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔)

  1. Tagalog (pertaining to the Tagalog region, the Tagalog people, or the Tagalog language)

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

References

  1. Sanger, J. P. (1905) Census of the Philippine Islands, Taken Under the Direction of the Philippine Commission in the Year 1903, Volume 1, Quezon City: U.S. Bureau of the Census, page 451
  2. Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles, Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., pages 936-937

Further reading

  • Tagalog”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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