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Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Philippine *habaʀat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *habaʀat, from Proto-Austronesian *Sabaʀat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haˈbaɡat/
- IPA(key): /ʔaˈbaɡat/ (h-dropping)
- Hyphenation: ha‧ba‧gat
Noun
habágat (Basahan spelling ᜑᜊᜄᜆ᜔)
- south
- Synonym: sur
Derived terms
See also
Cebuano
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *habaʀat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *habaʀat, from Proto-Austronesian *Sabaʀat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haˈbaɡat/
- Hyphenation: ha‧ba‧gat
Noun
habagat (Badlit spelling ᜑᜊᜄᜆ᜔)
- southwest monsoon
Derived terms
Hiligaynon
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Philippine *habaʀat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *habaʀat, from Proto-Austronesian *Sabaʀat.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ha‧ba‧gat
- IPA(key): /haˈbaɡat/
Noun
habágat
- southwest monsoon
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *habaʀat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *habaʀat (“southwest monsoon”), from Proto-Austronesian *Sabaʀat (“east or south wind”). Compare Ivatan avayat, Ilocano abagat, Kapampangan abagat, Hiligaynon bagatnan, Kavalan balat, Malay barat, Maori āwhā, and Palauan ngebard.
Pronunciation
Noun
habagat (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜊᜄᜆ᜔)
- south or southwest wind
- southwest monsoon
- Synonym: habagat-lubang
- Coordinate term: amihan
- (obsolete) west
- Synonyms: habagatan, kanluran
Derived terms
Further reading
- “habagat”, 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
- 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 8: “Abrego) Habagat (pp) viento del poniente”
- page 97: “Ayre) Habagat (pp) poniente que acallaman bendabal”
- page 108: “) Habagat (pp) viẽto del poniente”
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*SabaRat”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI