bilyon

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Cebuano

Cebuano numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000  ←  1,000,000 (106) 1,000,000,000 (109) 1012  →  1015  → 
    Cardinal: usá ka wakát, wakát
    Spanish cardinal: bilyón

Etymology

From Spanish billón.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bil‧yon

Numeral

bilyon

  1. billion; thousand million

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bilyon.

Tagalog

Tagalog numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000,000 (106)  ←  100,000,000 (108) 1,000,000,000 (109) 1012  → 
    Cardinal: sanlibong-angaw, sanggatos
    Spanish cardinal: bilyon
    Ordinal: ikasanlibong-angaw, pansanlibong-angaw, ikagatos, panggatos, ikasanggatos
    Ordinal abbreviation: ika-1000000000, pang-1000000000
    Collective: gatos

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish billón, with a semantic shift influenced by English billion.

Pronunciation

Numeral

bilyón (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ᜔ᜌᜓᜈ᜔)

  1. billion; thousand million
    Synonyms: gatos, sanlibong-angaw

Noun

bilyón (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ᜔ᜌᜓᜈ᜔)

  1. (Batangas, dated) twenty-cent coin