kalabaw

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Pronunciation

Noun

kalabaw

  1. vole

Tagakaulu Kalagan

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog kalabaw.

Noun

kalabaw

  1. carabao

Tagalog

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish carabao, from Waray-Waray karabaw,[1] from Malay kerbau, from Proto-Malayic *kAr(ə)baw, ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *krpiʔ ~ *krpiiw ~ *krpuʔ ~ *(kr)puh (“buffalo”).[2] Cognate with Modern Khmer ក្របី (krɑbəy), Halang kơpùa, Malay kerbau, Javanese ꦏꦼꦧꦺꦴ (kebo), Tausug kābaw, and Thai กระบือ (grà-bʉʉ). Before the coming of the Spaniards, the native Tagalog term used to refer to the animal is anwang. The word kalabaw itself does not appear in the earliest Tagalog dictionaries.

Pronunciation

Noun

kalabáw (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜊᜏ᜔)

  1. carabao; water buffalo (large ungulate)
    Synonyms: damulag, (archaic) anwang
  2. carabeef
  3. (colloquial) neckerchief slide in the Philippine Boy Scout uniform, which is the likeness of the head of a carabao

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Adjective

kalabáw (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜊᜏ᜔)

  1. (figurative, colloquial) lazy
    Synonym: tamad

References

  1. ^ Roberts, E. A. (2014). A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots. Volume I (A–G). XLibris LLC. p. 311. →ISBN.
  2. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “carabao”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

  • “kalabaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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