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Alangan
Noun
abok
- (anatomy) hair
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Central Philippine *qabuk, from Proto-Philippine *qabuk, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qabuk.
Pronunciation
Noun
abók (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊᜓᜃ᜔)
- dust
- ash; cinder
- Synonyms: abo, titis
- powder
- Synonyms: pulbos, polbo
Derived terms
Further reading
- “abok”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- “abok”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2024
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qabuk”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI