halilaya

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay hari raya (“holiday; festival; Eid”). In Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, it was defined as "a particular fast", but Potet (2013) thinks that it refers not to a fast, but Eid al-Fitr which ends the Ramadan fast. Doublet of Hariraya Puasa.

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /haliˈlaja/ [hɐ.lɪˈla.jɐ]
Rhymes: -aja
Syllabification: ha‧li‧la‧ya

Noun

halilaya (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜎᜒᜎᜌ) (Islam, obsolete)

Eid al-Fitr
Synonym: Hariraya Puasa

References

“halilaya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 126

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