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Tagalog
Tagalog numbers (edit)
| [a], [b] ← 100,000
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← 10,000,000 (107)
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100,000,000 (108)
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1,000,000,000 (109) →
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Cardinal: sandaang angaw, sambahala
Spanish cardinal: siyento milyones
Ordinal: ikasandaang angaw, pansandaang angaw, ikabahala, pangbahala, ikasambahala
Ordinal abbreviation: ika-100000000, pang-100000000
Collective: bahala
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Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit भार (bhāra, “burden; load; weight”).[1] Compare Kapampangan bala, Cebuano bála / baláha (“to carry something on the back, not tied”),[2] Indonesian bahar, Malay bahara (“weight”),[3][4] and Javanese ꦧꦫ (bara, “hundred million”). Otherwise, it may also possibly be from Bathala, which was from Sanskrit भट्टार (bhaṭṭāra, “revered, worshipful”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bahalà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜑᜎ)
- responsibility
- Synonym: responsabilidad
- person responsible
- Synonyms: tagapangasiwa, katiwala, patnugot, tagapangalaga, tagapamahala
- management; custody; charge
- Synonyms: pangangasiwa, pamamatnubay, pamamatnugot
- apprehension; presentiment
Derived terms
See also
Adjective
bahalà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜑᜎ)
- answerable; accountable; responsible
Numeral
bahalà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜑᜎ) (obsolete)
- hundred million
- Synonyms: sandaang milyon, sampung kati
Derived terms
References
- ^ Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 276
- ^ John U. Wolff (1972) A dictionary of Cebuano Visayan (overall work in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
- ^ “bahara” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- ^ Jose G. Kuizon (1964) The Sanskrit Loan-Words in the Cebuano-Bisayan Language, Cebu City: University of San Carlos, page 118
Further reading
- “bahala”, 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
- Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1887) El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog (in Spanish), Paris: Imprimerie de la Faculté de Médecine, A. Davy
Anagrams
Ternate
Etymology
Most likely ultimately deriving from Arabic بَلَاء (balāʔ)
Pronunciation
Noun
bahala
- disaster
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh