tanglaw

Tagalog

Alternative forms
  • tanlaw

Etymology

From Hokkien 燈樓／灯楼 (teng-lâu, “lampstand; lighthouse”).[1][2][3][4]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taŋˈlaw/, [tɐnˈlaʊ̯]
  • Hyphenation: tang‧law

Noun

tangláw (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜅ᜔ᜎᜏ᜔)

  1. (literary) light; illumination
    Synonyms: ilaw, liwanag
  2. someone who participates in a night procession carrying a lighted candle
  3. (literary, figurative) beacon; something that gives mental illumination

Derived terms

References
  1. Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 132.
  2. Chan-Yap, Gloria (1977) “Hokkien Chinese loanwords in Tagalog”, in Casilda Edrial-Luzares & Austin Hale, editors, Studies in Philippine Linguistics‎, volume 1, number 1 (PDF), Ateneo de Manila University, page 21.
  3. “台日大辭典(台譯版)”, in 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢2019‎, 1932, 編號: 58878, page 301
  4. “iTaigi 愛台語”, in iTaigi華台對照典‎, 2016+, archived from the original on 18 October 2018, 燈樓
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