Freds Glossary of Rare Tagalog Words
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Fred’s Glossary of Rare Tagalog Words(25 pages)
-by Frederick Victor Paredes Añana
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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
D
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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P
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
U
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
W
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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