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Tagalog
Etymology
Compare Ilocano allawagi, Kapampangan anluagi, and Javanese ꦲꦸꦤ꧀ꦝꦒꦶ (undhagi).
Pronunciation
Noun
anluwagi (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈ᜔ᜎᜓᜏᜄᜒ) (now dialectal)
- carpenter (especially of bamboo or wooden structures or furniture)
- Synonyms: karpintero, panday-kahoy
1965, Rufino Alejandro, Salamin ng buhay: ikalawang taon, page 185:Kung ayaw po ninyong tanungin ang marami pang tao'y ang anluwagi na lamang na gumawa ng bahay na ito ang inyong kausapin.- If you do not like to ask more people, then just ask the carpenter who made this house.
Usage notes
- This term is now generally used in literary works, and is displaced by the Spanish loanword karpintero.
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Further reading
- “anluwagi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 40.
- 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
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 149: “Carpintero) Anlovagi (pp) de labrar madera”
- page 380: “Labrar) Anlovagi (pp) madera”