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Cebuano
Pronunciation
Verb
kahig
- to drag
- to rake
Noun
kahig
- a rake
- a harrow
Quotations
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Anagrams
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiʀ (“scratch the ground, as a chicken does”).
Pronunciation
Noun
kahig (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜑᜒᜄ᜔)
- scratching of a chicken searching for food or preparing for a cockfight
- act of cleaning garbage using a rake
Derived terms
Further reading
- “kahig”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kahiR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI