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Tagalog
Etymology
From lunod + ka- -an, meaning the “place of drowning” because the sun “drowns” or sets in the west.
Pronunciation
Noun
kalunuran (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜓᜈᜓᜇᜈ᜔)
- (literally) drowning
- Synonyms: lunod, pagkalunod
- (literally) place of drowning
- Synonym: paglulunuran
- (figuratively) western horizon at sunset
- Archaic form of kanluran.
- sa dapit kalunuran ― to the west
Derived terms
Further reading
- “kalunuran”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 600.
- 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
- 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 449: “Ocçidente) Calonoran (pp) lugar dondeſe pone el ſol abs) y metaf ) de lonor, porque les pareçe ſe ahoga el ſol quando ſe pone.”