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Fred’s Glossary of Rare Tagalog Words(25 pages)

-by Frederick Victor Paredes Añana

A

abay - best man, bridesman, bridesmaid, consort, escort, retainer

ada – fairy

adhikain - goal, objective, strive to attain, being desired

agham – science

agam-agam - doubt

agapay – escort, adjective, parallel, adverb, side by side

agapayang kabit — parallel connection

akda – article, writing a literary piece, literary composition, authorship

akibat – carrying smth. on a shoulder, anything carried on a shoulder, something incumbent upon a person, carried on a shoulder

aklat – book

akma – fitting, fit, proper, right, well-fitted, appropriate, threat as of a hand about to strike

alak-alakan – ham part of leg

alamid - wild mountain cat alangan – uncertain

alanganin – insufficient

alapaap - high clouds

alibadbaran – to irritate

alibugha – irresponsible, prodigal, squanderer

alindog – allure

alinlangan – doubt

alitaptap – firefly

alituntunin – rules, canon, regulation, law, precept, principle, procedure, order, aim

alpas - to become free, to be able to break loose

alunig — resonance

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ambag – contribution, donation, contributory

amihan - northeast wind, breeze

angao – one million

angkat – importation, import, obtaining goods on consignment basis, obtained on consignment basis

aninag - visible, transparent, translucent

anluwage – carpenter

aplaya – waterfront, beach, coast, seashore, seaside,

arosep – small seaweed

asoge – mercury

asuhos - sillago fish

atang – impose, yoke

atas - decree, order, dictate, command, mandate, prescript, requirement, prescription, injunction, will

atubili – reluctance, hesitation, doubt, doubtful, infirm, reluctant

awanggan — infinity

awanging tubo — vacuum tube ayuno - fasting

B

babaylan – priestess

bagot – bored, exasperation, impatience

baitang – grade, level, steps of a staircase, rank, degree

bakulaw – gorilla

balakid – obstacle

balani - magnet

balantok – arc, shaping in the form of arch

balarila — grammar

balagtas - going across, short cut way

balangkas – outline

balik-tanaw – review, retrospect, flashback balingkinitan - lean, slender, slim, svelte, willowy

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balintataw - pupil of the eye

balintiyak – passive voice

balintuna – unbelievable, contrary to fact, absurd

balnian — magnetism

balumbon / balumbong – wad, roll, scroll

bahay-bata – uterus, womb banaag – glimpse, faint manifestation, glimmer

bangag – slow minded

banghay – plan, diagram, frame, sketch, outline, plot, design

bansag – alias, nickname

basisig — centrifugal force

batayan – basis, source

batayang-panukat – unit of measurement, measuring unit

batid – understanding, information, adjective, understood, known

batikos – verbal attack, severe criticism, tirade

baybay – a spelling, shoreline, border, shore, side, edge

baybay-dagat – beach, seashore

baybayin – to spell, go along the border, follow the shoreline, beach

bigkis – bundle, girdle, tying together into a bundle, bond

bilnuran — arithmetic

bisig – arm, forearm

bisperas – eve

bagtas – a crossing, short cut across a field

bagwis - wing

bayong – soft basket

bubog – broken pieces of glass

budhi – conscience, conduct

buhagsigwasan — pneumatics

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buhay-ilang – wildlife

bukal – water spring, source

bukang liwayway – dawn, open dawn

buklod - bond, metal ring

bukluran - reinforce with a metal ring, bind together

bulay – meditation, stripping palm leaves, strip of palm leaf

bulwagan - hall, big entrance to a building

buod - summary

butaw - membership fees, practice bout in cockfighting, fine for delinquency in payment of one's obligation, release of gamecocks at the start of the bout

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dagibalniing liboy — electromagnetic waves

dagikapnayan — electrochemistry

dagindas — electrode dagisik — electron dagisikan — electronics

dagitab — electricity

daglat – abbreviation

dagok – setback, blow with the fist, thump, blow

dagsa — arrival, incoming, momentum

dagsin — gravity

dalag – murrel

dalampasigan – seashore

dalas — frequency

dalangin – prayer

daluyong - big waves, surf

dambuhala – huge, gigantic

damikay — polynomial

dangkal – the span from tip of thumb to tip of middle finger

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dantay —  impulse

danumsigwasan —  hydraulics

darang - exposed to the heat of fire

datung – money, cash, doe

dawit — involve, inductance dihaying — inorganic chemistry

dikya – jelly fish

di-mahapayang gatang – grouchy/grumpy woman

dipa - the span of two extended arms

diwata – fairy

duhakay — binomial

duhandas — diode

dungis – dirt

durungawan – window

duyog — ellipse

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G

gahala - one hundred million

gahaman - greedy

gahasa - rape

gambala – trouble, disturbance

ganid - selfish person

garapal - flagrant, gross

gat – sir

gatang – a unit of measure for rice and other grains, dry measure

gatla – mark, notch, nick

gatlang – to dash, dash

gawad – gift, award, bestowal, grant, prize

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gayak – to decorate, to festoon, decoration, ornamentation, ornament

giling – grind

gilis — hypotenuse

gilit - incision, cut, incision or slice marks (on fish or wood); sliced piece

gitisig — centripetal force gitlapi — infix

gitling – hyphen

gulod - highland, geographical plate, ridge, verge of a cliff

gumon - addicted

gunita - memory, recollection, flashback, reminiscence, reflection, mediation

gipit – scarce, desperate, lacking

gusgusin – unkempt

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habagat - southwest monsoon, south wind, southwest

habilin - leaving something to somebody for temporary safekeeping, anything given to somebody for safekeeping, a will

habyog — torque

hadlang – to obstruct, to stand in the way, to place an impediment, to obstruct, to bar

halaan – a kind of edible clam

halay – rape, indecency

haligi – column, post, pillar

halili – substitute, replacement

hambinging bigat — specific weight

hanay - forming together in a line, arranging things into a line, order, enumeration, series, tabulation

hatinig — telephone haying — organic chemistry

haykapnayan — biochemistry

haynayan — biology

hidhid – selfish person

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hikahos - indigence, poverty

hikayat – persuade, persuading

hikbi – sob

hilaga – north

himasok – meddling

himaton – clue

himlay – slumber

himlayan – resting place

himpilan – TV/radio station

himukin – encourage

himutok - outcry of disappointment or distress, whimper, complaint

hinagpis - doleful sigh, complaint, resentment,

hirang – appointed, ordained

hiyas – gem, jewel, ornament, decoration

hudhod – a rubbing

hukbo – army, troops, large group of people, legion, military, force

hulapi — suffix

humaling - extreme fondness

hunos - shedding the skin, molting

huwad – fake

huwaran – role model, set as an example, paragon

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igiit – to insist

ipataw – impose

indak - to dance in time with the music, swing dance

indayog – rhythm, cadency, cadence, swing

initsigan — thermodynamics

ihayag – broadcast

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iluklok – install, enthrone

irog – beloved, dear one, darling

isahimpapawid – broadcast, to put on air

isakay — take in as a passenger, monomial

isigan — dynamics

isinaklit – placed, kept

itak – bolo

iwaksi – renounce, turn away

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kaakibat – affiliates

kaanib – member, affiliate, ally, follower

kaaya-aya - pleasant, pleasurable, cheerful

kaban - a measure of rice, a sack

kabihasnan – civilization

kabanata – chapter

kabatas — law enforcer

kabtol — switch

kagaw – germs, bacteria

kagawad - co-partner, member

kagawaran - department, faculty

kabibe – clam, conch kalakhan – metro

kalakip – attached, included, with, enclosure

kalapati – dove

kalasag – shield

kalawit - grapnel, grappling iron, hook, tholepin

kalipunan – association, group, society, concourse, federation, conglomerate, convocation, sphere

kaloob - donation, gift, grant, endowment, give, bestowal, complimentary

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kalupkop – inlay, thin metal lining, plating, overlay, veneer kamangyan – incense

kanais-nais – desirable

kandili – a caring, a support to care for someone less fortunate

kanlong – shade

kanluran – west

kapatagan – flatness, glen, level,lie of the land, lowland, plain, plains, vale, steppe

kapisanan – association, circle, club, fraternity, guild, league, organization, union, sodality, society

kapnayan — chemistry

karalitaan – poverty

kariktan - beauty

karimlan – darkness

karumalan – menstrual period

karumal-dumal – heinous, grisly, nefarious

kasagwilan — resistivity

kasapi – member

kasaysayan – history

kasu-kasuan – joint kataga – term, particle

katampalasanan – vandalism, depravity, iniquity, rascality, villainy

katiktik — detective

katinig — consonant

katoto – comrade, pal, chum, friend, crony

katumbas - equal, compensation, match, equivalent, commensurate, reciprocal, corresponding, tantamount, on a level

katunggali – rival, enemy, antagonist, opponent

kawad – wire, line

kawal – soldier

kawan – troop

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kawani – staff, faculty

kawanihan – bureau

kawil – hook, fishhook, link

kawing – link, chain, track shoe kilatis – identify, scrutinize

kinatawan – representative

kintal – mark

kirot – pain, ache, sting

kisapmata – wink of an eye, wink

kisig - handsomeness, dashing, well-dressed

kudyapi – Tagalog guitar, lyre, zither

kumon – latrine, closet, toilet, water closet

kupkop - kept and protected under one's care

kutis – complexion

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labong – bamboo shoot

lagda – signature, subscription

lagak – depositing, money deposited in a bank, putting something temporarily on a certain place

lagom – summary

lagok – gulp, gulping

lahatan — general chemistry

lakambini - muse

laklak - excessive drinking, drinking liquids noisily

laksa – 10,000

laktod — short circuit

lambong – veil, mantilla, pall, anything that screens, shroud

landok – track point lantay – pure, unadulterated

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lapi — affix

lapya — plane

larang — equilibrium

latak – residue, sediment, residuum

lathala – publication, published article, advertisement

lathalain - magazine article, made ready for publication

lato – large seaweed

laumin — integral

layon – purpose, objective, intention, aim, wide and deep part of a river

layunin – purpose, intent, cause, mission, objective, object, aim, goal, intention, motive, have for an objective, adverb, in view

liboy — wave

libuyhaba — wavelength

liham – note, mailed letter

lihim - secret

lihis – deviation, deviated, out of alignment

liknayan — physics

lilok – sculpture, graven

limahid – dirt, filth limbag – a publishing

lingap – care, protective care, compassionate care

lipi – clan, race, tribe, lineage, folk, ancestry

liwayway – dawn

liyad - bent backward with stomach protruding, backward bend

lugmok – prostrate

luksa – to mourn

lukob - gouge

lulan — capacitance, capacity, passengers, cargo, aboard, on board, which can be accommodated

lulong – addicted, desperate

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lulos — bypass

luningning – pomp, grandeur

lupon - committee, council, commission, board, a group body

lusong – to dive

lustay - embezzlement, misappropriation of fund, embezzled, misappropriated

luwas - to go from town to city, to take to the city, export

lipon – group, small gathering

lipunan - society

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magkaloob – donate, contribute

magsahimpapawid – broadcast

magsimpan – to nurse

mahalay - anacreontic, improper, impure, low, immoral, lustful, morally offensive, obscene, ribald, salacious, sensual, smutty, unchaste, unclean, vile, vulgar, carnal, depraved, garish, gross, loose in morals, licentious, libertine, lewd, lascivious, indelicate, indecent, immodest

mailap – intractable, elusive, untamed

makalalin – infect

makisig – gorgeous

malasaluyan — semiconductor

malumanay – mild, gently

mamamayan – citizen

mangasiwa - regulate

mangkok – bowl

mangmang – dumb

manman – a monitoring

manmanan - monitor, spy, observe, nose, reconnoiter, scout

mapamighani – bewitching

mapangahas – daring

mapanghalina – captivating

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mapanibugho – jealous

mapanibughuin – jealous

mapaniil – abusive, enslaving

maralita –indigent, impecunious, poor

mariin - emphatic, emphatically

marilag - beautiful, pretty, splendid, majestic, palatial, exquisite, superb, glorious, magnificent, proud-spirited, resplendent, sublime, pompous, attractively radiant

masalimuot – complex, elaborate, intricate

matanto – realize, understand

matamasa – enjoy

mataray -

mayumi – ladylike, maiden-like, maidenly

miktinig — microphone

mungkahi – suggestion, proposal,

mutya - pearl, jewel, amulet, talisman

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naaalibadbaran - irritating

naalibadbaran - irritated

naninibugho – feeling jealous

nanlilimahid – dirty

napangilakan – collection

nasa – at, in, on, desire, aspiration

ngasab – masticate like a pig/boar

natanto – realized, understood

nilay – meditative

nilay-nilayin – meditate

ngilin – abstinence

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paari — genetive/possessive

pabalintiyak — passive

padamdam — exclamatory

pagdarahop – dearth, destitution pagbaybay — spelling

pagi – sting ray

pagitan – between

pagkakalatag – layout

pagsasatao - personification

pagsipang – recoil

palabas - a show, a film, performance, stunt, outgoing, outbound, out, outward, outwards

palabaybayan — orthography

palagyo — nominative

palamuti – ornament, decoration, décor, decking, garnish, garniture, gaud, ornamentation, trimming

palatangkasan — set algebra

palatinigan — phonetics palatitikan – alphabet

palatuntunan – tv/radio program, a broadcast

palautatan — statistics

palikuran – bathroom, comfort room, toilet

paliparan — airport

palos – eel, snake eel

palugit – margin,

paluwagan – fund raising

pamahagi — denominator

pamatnugutan – manage, conduct, preside, superintend

pamayanan – community

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pambungad – introduction, foreword, prelude, preamble, opening

paminggalan – kitchen

pampang – beach, seashore

pamuhatan – heading

pana – arrow

panagutan - account

panakda — numerator

panaklong - parenthesis

panakwil — resistor

panalangin – prayer

pananaghili – envy, jealousy

panandaan — algebra

panauhin – visitor

panauhing pandangal – special gust, honorable guest, guest of honor

panawit —  inductor

pandarayuhan – migration, settlement, immigration

panghibayo — amplifier

panibugho / paninibugho – jealousy

pandiwa — verb

pang-abay — adverb

pangahas – daring, bold, intrepid, brazen

pangangasiwa – management, supervision, administration, managing

pangasiwaan – management , administration, regime, board of directors, rule, verb, to manage supervise, superintend, oversee, conduct, handle, preside, regulate

panghadlang — insulator

pangngalan — noun

pangungusap — sentence

pang-ugnay — linker

pang-ukol — preposition

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pang-uri — adjective

paniklop – folder panipi – quotation mark, quote, copier, photo-copier, duplicator

panlahat – bus

panlulan — capacitor

panlupi – folder

pansalok – scoop

panulat – pen, pencil

panunungkulan –incumbency

panunuran – series

panuto – direction, instruction

parikit – finery,

parikitan – to beautify

parirala — phrase

parihaba — rectangle

parisukat — square

pariugat — square root

pasalaysay — narrative

pasinaya - inauguration

paskil – post, message post,

patag – flat, leveled surface, even surface, plain, plane

patahas/tahas/tahasan — direct

patanong — interrogative

pataw - imposition

patinig — vowel

patnugot – editor, manager, director, redactor, subeditor

patok - popular paukol — ergative

paunawa – notice, announcement, signboard, explaining, bulletin

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pautos — imperative

pilandok -

pilapil - dam, dike, dyke, embankment, horse path, path, weir

pinggan – dining plate

pinilakang-tabing – cinema, cinema screen, the big screen

piranggot – a very small piece

pita – craving, desire, lust

pitagan - to respect

pook – place, district, region, area, point, quarter, locality, zone, site

pook-sapot – website

pukyutan – honeybee, bee

pulot - honey

pulot pukyutan – honey from bees

pulutong – batch, swarm, circle, corps, mass, platoon, set, squad

puna – comment, critique, criticism

purok - district, locale, area, territory, locality, ward

puspos - full, complete, replete, fraught, rife puspusan – thoroughly

putakti - wasp

pighati – sorrow, grief, woe, dolor, heaviness

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rurok – peak, tiptop, summit, climax, acme

S

sadlak - to fall into disgrace, shame, or misfortune

sagisag – symbol, symbolism

said – emptied, to empty

saklolo – rescue, save

saknong – stanza

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sakuna – calamity, adversity

sakwil — resistance

salaula – immoral, having dirty habit, vandal, slovenly, impure spirit

salaysay – narration, statement,

saliding saloy — alternating current

saligwil — transistor

salikop — circuit

saliksik - research

salinlahi – generation

salipapaw — aeroplane, airplane

saliw – accompaniment

salok – to fetch, as in fetching water

salop – a rice measurement, equivalent to a kilo, ganta

saloy —  current

salumpuwit — chair

saluyan —  conductor

sambat – fork

samsam – something confiscated/seized

samsamin - confiscate, commandeer, subduct, seize

sanaysay – essay, written theme, thesis, literary composition

sandamak - the width of the hand with the five fingers pressed together

sandata – weapon

sandok – ladle, soup ladle, dipper

sangguni – consult, confer, advert, refer

sanggunian - conference, reference, consultation, directory sanyo — variable

sapantaha – hunch, presumption, impression, inkling, suspicion, conjecture, surmise

saro – mug, ewer

sayad – destitute, ground

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sibat – spear, lance, pike

sibol – bloom

sidhi – severity, violence, intensity, brunt

sigwasan – mechanics siil – burdened, plagued, afflicted, cowed, beaten, abused, mistreated, enslaved, tyrannized

siksin — solid

silahis – beam, ray, homosexual man, gay man, effeminate

silakbo – emotional outburst, spurt

sining – art sinipi – quotation, quoted

sinop – economical, thrifty, frugal, careful

sinsay – incorrect

sinupin – economize sipi – citation, transcript, carbon copy, passage, quotation, quote

siping - to lie down beside

sipnayan — mathematics

sinta – darling, dear, love, beloved, truelove

siyasat – trial, inquiry

siyasatin – investigate, inspect, explore, examine, check, go over, inquire, look into, look over, observe, review, scout, survey

subaybay – to monitor

sugnay — clause

suhay – support, brace, buttress,

sukatan — measuring unit, quantitative chemistry

sukgisan — geometry

sulatroniko – e-mail

suliranin – problem

sulo – torch, cresset

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sulyap - glimpse sumbat – upbraid

sunurang kabit — series connexion

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tabak – sword

tablay — electric charge

tadhana – fate, destiny

tadlong — perpendicular

tagadaloy - host

tagamasid – observer, viewer

tagapamagitan – mediator

taimtim – solemn, deeply

takda – given, mark, term, stint, quota, measure, limitation, limit, clause, item in a document, stipulations, terms, bound

takipsilim – dusk, twilight, gloaming, nightfall, sundown

talaarawan – diary, calendar

talahulunganan – glossary

talambuhay – biography

talampakan - sole of foot, a foot length

talampas – cliff

talasarili – diary

talatinigan - dictionary

talata – paragraph

talinghaga – metaphor, figurative words

tahasan — direct

takakayan – discussion

talaksan – file

talastas – message,

taludtod – verse, a line of words,

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talukap - cap of the crab, sheath of palm leaves or banana stalk, eyelid

talukay — trinomial

talumpati – speech

talundas — triode

tamasa – enjoyment, enjoy

tambal – match

tambalan – partnership

tambilang – digit

tampalasa – rascal, immoral

tampisaw - to wade in the water

tampok - feature

tanghal – exhibit, theatre, concert, show

tanghalan - place where a show or program is exhibited, theatre

tanggapan – office

tangi – unique, isolated,

tangis – cry, mourn

tango – nod, wag

tanto – realize, understand, cognizant

tanyag – outstanding, celebrated, famous, notable, well-known, sought-after, distinguished,prominent, popular

tatsihan — trigonometry

tatsulok — triangle

tayahan — calculus

tibo - splinter of glass, lesbian

tigal — inertia

tigang - parched, torrid, barren, arid, thirsty, dry, wizened

tigilan — statics, to stop

tiklis – small basket

tikop — circumference

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tiktik - spy

tilamsik – spray, spatter, splash, splatter

timbulog — spherical

timog – south

timpi - to control one's self

tinalupan - skinned

tingirin — differentia

tirik – headstall, conk, perpendicular

tiyak – certain, sure, exact, proper

topak – mental illness

tudling – editorial, column, furrow, plow

tugatog – apex, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, vertex, zenith, tor, top

tugis – chase, pursue

tugisin – chase, pursue

tugon – reply, answer, response

tugoy — oscillation

tugoysipat — oscilloscope

tuligsa – tirade, stricture

tulingan – tuna

tumbas – equal

tumbasan — equation, to match

tanaw – vision

tanawin – landscape, scape, scene, gaze at

tayutay – figure of speech

tubog – plated, gilt, gilded

tudling – column (of words)

tungayaw – profanity, malediction

tunggali – crossfire, contestation

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turok – to inject

tuwirang saloy —  direct current

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ugma – suited

unlapi — prefix

ugnay – contact

ugnayan – relationships, correlation

umay - sick of a particular food or activity

ungkat - to bring up again

urian — qualitative chemistry

usig – inquisition

usisa – inquire, query

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waksi - to get rid of something by jerking away the hand

wasiwas – wag

watawat – flag

Y

yakis, nagyayakis – to sharpen

yamot – annoyance, boredom, impatient, irritable, vexed, spiteful

yugto – stage, installment (as of a show or film) yungib - cave

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