salabay

• IPA^(key): /saˈlabaj/, [saˈl̪a.baɪ̯]
• Hyphenation: sa‧la‧bay

salábay (Basahan spelling ᜐᜎᜊᜌ᜔)

1. a man-of-war; a Portuguese man-of-war
2. (by extension) a jellyfish

   Synonym: palit

• Hyphenation: sa‧la‧bay
• IPA^(key): /saˈlabaj/, [s̪ʌˈl̪a.baɪ̯]

salabay (Badlit spelling ᜐᜎᜊᜌ᜔)

1. a man-of-war; a Portuguese man-of-war
2. (by extension) a jellyfish

   Synonym: bukya

• Andrew Frank Gallman, Proto East Mindanao and Its Internal Relationships (1997)

Compare Tausug sābay.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈlabaj/ [sɐˈla.baɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -abaj
• Syllabification: sa‧la‧bay

salabay (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎᜊᜌ᜔)

1. jellyfish

   Synonyms: dikya, likya, labok-labok

2. (obsolete) crossing of one's arms while drinking

• The word salabay refers to a larger jellyfish than a dikya.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /salaˈbaj/ [sɐ.lɐˈbaɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Syllabification: sa‧la‧bay

salabáy (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎᜊᜌ᜔) (obsolete)

1. object resembling a fish

• “salabay”, 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
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 34: “Aguas) Salabay (pp) de [la mar] que llaman muertas”