kalabaw
Tagalog
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish carabao, from Waray-Waray karabaw,[1] from Malay kerbau, from Proto-Malayic *kAr(ə)baw, ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *krpiʔ ~ *krpiiw ~ *krpuʔ ~ *(kr)puh (“buffalo”).[2] Cognate with Modern Khmer ក្របី (krɑbəy), Halang kơpùa, Malay kerbau, Javanese ꦏꦼꦧꦺꦴ (kebo), Thai กระบือ (grà-bʉʉ). Before the coming of the Spaniards, the native Tagalog term used to refer to the animal is anwang. The word kalabaw itself does not appear in the earliest Tagalog dictionaries.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kalaˈbaw/, [kɐ.lɐˈbaʊ̯]
- Hyphenation: ka‧la‧baw
Noun
kalabáw (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜊᜏ᜔)
- carabao; water buffalo (large ungulate)
- carabeef
- (informal) neckerchief slide in the Philippine Boy Scout uniform, which is the likeness of the head of a carabao
Derived terms
- balat-kalabaw
- kayod-kalabaw
- pakong-kalabaw
References
- Roberts, E. A. (2014). A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots. Volume I (A–G). XLibris LLC. p. 311. →ISBN.
- Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “carabao”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
Further reading
- “kalabaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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