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Tagalog
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Adjective
ayók (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌᜓᜃ᜔) (dialectal, Laguna, Rizal)
- appropriate; befitting
- Synonyms: bagay, akma, angkop
Ayok sa iyo ang damit mo.- Your clothes fit you.
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
ayok (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌᜓᜃ᜔)
- Alternative form of hayok: woody vine
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Noun
ayók (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌᜓᜃ᜔) (obsolete)
- granting a formerly denied request
- Synonyms: payag, tulot, pahintulot, kaloob, ayo, paoo
Salamat sa Diyos at napaayok na.- Thank God that had been granted.
Etymology 4
Pronunciation
Adjective
ayók (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌᜓᜃ᜔) (obsolete)
- hobbling; shaking
- Synonyms: umaalog-alog, abyog, liay
- bending (like a tall, thin, stick)
- Synonyms: yutyot, habyog, habyok
- (figurative) sloppy; sluggish
Aayok-ayok ka ng paglakad- You are sloppy in your walk.
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “ayok”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- 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
- Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte. (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
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