halang

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Cebuano

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compare Bikol Central harang.

Pronunciation

Adjective

hálang (Badlit spelling ᜑᜎᜅ᜔)

  1. hot; pungent; spicy
  2. (slang) expensive
    Synonym: mahal

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowed from Cebuano halang.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ha‧lang
  • IPA(key): /ˈhalaŋ/

Adjective

hálang

  1. spicy, pungent, biting (of taste)
    Synonym: kahang

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay halang, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalaŋ (“obstruct, lie across or athwart”). Doublet of alang. Compare Tagalog harang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ha‧lang

Verb

halang

  1. to hinder, to impede.
    Synonyms: lintang, rintang

Affixed terms

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalaŋ (“obstruct, lie across or athwart”). Compare Tagalog harang.

Pronunciation

Verb

halang (Jawi spelling هالڠ)

  1. to hinder, to impede, to block.
    Dinding banjir tidak berjaya menghalang air yang semakin meningkat parasnya.
    The flood wall didn't succeed in blocking the rising water.

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

Descendants

  • Indonesian: halang

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

Possibly from Malay halang, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalaŋ (“obstruct, lie across or athwart”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /ˈhalaŋ/ (“obstacle; clog; temporary screen; separating object; seine; substitute; substitution; spiciness”, noun)
    • IPA(key): /haˈlaŋ/ (“tranverse; savage”, adjective; “woven multicolor fabric”, noun)
  • Syllabification: ha‧lang

Noun

halang (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜎᜅ᜔)

  1. obstacle; barrier (object)
    Synonyms: hadlang, harang, balakid, sagabal, sagwil
  2. clog
    Synonym: bara
  3. temporary screen; temporary partition
    Synonym: tabing
  4. object placed to separate two things
    Synonym: pagitan
  5. encircling gill net or drag seine fishing gear
  6. (architecture) crosspiece
    Synonym: krusada
  7. (dialectal, Batangas) substitute; alternate
    Synonyms: kahalili, kapalit
  8. (dialectal, Batangas) substitution
    Synonyms: halili, paghalili
  9. (now dialectal, Quezon, Mindoro) spiciness
    Synonyms: anghang, hanghang

Derived terms

See also

Adjective

haláng (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜎᜅ᜔)

  1. passing; transverse; traverse; extending across
    Synonyms: pahalang, nakahalang
  2. merciless; savage; heartless

Noun

haláng (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜎᜅ᜔) (art, obsolete)

  1. woven fabric of different colors

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “halang” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
  • “halang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qalaŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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