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Cebuano
Etymology
Compare Bikol Central harang.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hálang (Badlit spelling ᜑᜎᜅ᜔)
- hot; pungent; spicy
- (slang) expensive
- Synonym: mahal
Hiligaynon
Etymology
Borrowed from Cebuano halang.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ha‧lang
- IPA(key): /ˈhalaŋ/
Adjective
hálang
- 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
- to hinder, to impede.
- Synonyms: lintang, rintang
Affixed terms
Further reading
Javanese
Romanization
halang
- Romanization of ꦲꦭꦁ
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalaŋ (“obstruct, lie across or athwart”). Compare Tagalog harang.
Pronunciation
Verb
halang (Jawi spelling هالڠ)
- 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
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)
- obstacle; barrier (object)
- Synonyms: hadlang, harang, balakid, sagabal, sagwil
- clog
- Synonym: bara
- temporary screen; temporary partition
- Synonym: tabing
- object placed to separate two things
- Synonym: pagitan
- encircling gill net or drag seine fishing gear
- (architecture) crosspiece
- Synonym: krusada
- (dialectal, Batangas) substitute; alternate
- Synonyms: kahalili, kapalit
- (dialectal, Batangas) substitution
- Synonyms: halili, paghalili
- (now dialectal, Quezon, Mindoro) spiciness
- Synonyms: anghang, hanghang
Derived terms
See also
Adjective
haláng (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜎᜅ᜔)
- passing; transverse; traverse; extending across
- Synonyms: pahalang, nakahalang
- merciless; savage; heartless
Noun
haláng (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜎᜅ᜔) (art, obsolete)
- woven fabric of different colors
Derived terms
Further reading
- “halang”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
- “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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