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Tagalog
Etymology
Literally, “low-flying dove; dove whose flight is low”. The prostitutes came to be called as such from the name of a red-light district called Palomar, now a part of Tutuban, Tondo, Manila, which the Spanish authorities used as a detention place for prostitutes sentenced to be exiled or deported to Palawan.
Palomar is named from Spanish palomar (“dovecote; pigeon house; small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground”). Hence, prostitutes at the “dovecote” are the “doves” or palomas in Spanish. Calque of Spanish palomas de bajo vuelo (“dove of low flight”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kalaˌpatiŋ maˌbabaʔ ʔaŋ liˈpad/
- IPA(key): (with glottal stop elision) /kalaˌpatiŋ maˌbaba(ʔ) ʔaŋ liˈpad/
- Rhymes: -ad
- Syllabification: ka‧la‧pa‧ting ma‧ba‧ba ang li‧pad
Noun
kalapating mababà ang lipád (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜉᜆᜒᜅ᜔ ᜋᜊᜊ ᜀᜅ᜔ ᜎᜒᜉᜇ᜔) (figurative, euphemistic)
- prostitute
- Synonyms: puta, pokpok, (euphemistic) kalapati, ibong mababa ang lipad