把拉

Chinese

		handle; (a measure word); (marker for direct-object) handle; (a measure word); (marker for direct-object); to hold; to contain; to grasp; to take hold of	to pull; to play (string instruments); to drag to pull; to play (string instruments); to drag; to draw
simp. and trad. (把拉)		把	拉
anagram		拉把

Plausibly from either:

Spanish paga (“payment; to pay”), from Spanish pagar (“to pay”), which was frequently used as the main definition in 1½ of the pages for the Hokkien term for "to pay", attested and translated in Spanish in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642). The Chinese community of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era used to speak a sort of Spanish pidgin variety known as "Caló Chino Español" and "La Lengua del Parian" (in Spanish) or "Kastilang tindahan" (in Tagalog).
Tagalog pala (“recompense; consequence; payment taken from someone”), attested in the Vocabulario de la lengua tagala (1860), although the glottal stop at the end IPA: /pɐˈlaʔ/ denotes it as less likely.

把拉

Dialectal synonyms of 付 (“to pay”)

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		付
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	付
	Malaysia	還, 付
	Singapore	還, 付
Southwestern Mandarin	Guilin	付
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	付
Cantonese	Guangzhou	畀
	Hong Kong	畀
	Singapore (Guangfu)	畀
Gan	Nanchang	付
Hakka	Kuching (Hepo)	還
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	付
Southern Min	Tainan	付
	Penang (Hokkien)	予
	Singapore (Hokkien)	還
	Manila (Hokkien)	把拉, 還 obsolete
Wu	Shanghai	付

^ Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642, page 356/193; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum, Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN
^ Andrade, Pío (2008) “Education and Spanish in the Philippines”, in Asociación Cultural Galeón de Manila‎
^ Ferdinand Blumentritt, T. H. Pardo de Tavera (1885) Vocabular einzelner Ausdrücke und Redensarten, welche dem Spanischen der Philippinischen Inseln eigenthümlich sind‎ (overall work in Spanish and German), Leitmeritz: Verlag der Communal-Ober-Realschule, page 18
^ 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, page 227