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Tagalog
Etymology
From Malay kerikam, from Tamil காரிக்கம் (kārikkam, “unbleached plain cotton cloth”).
Pronunciation
Noun
kalikam (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒᜃᜋ᜔) (obsolete)
- embroidered breeches from Brunei
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “kalikam”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte. (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 317: “Faja) Calicam (pp) q̃ tirue de bragas, es eſta labrada de mil lauores”
- page 407: “Manta) Calicam (pp) fina y de Burney pero no tiene oro, es tejida de algodon y ſeda.”