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Etymology
Borrowed from Kapampangan karayum, from Proto-Philippine *daʀum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zaʀum, from Proto-Austronesian *zaʀum.
Noun
karayom
- needle
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Kapampangan karayum, from Proto-Philippine *daʀum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zaʀum, from Proto-Austronesian *zaʀum. Compare Ilocano dagum, Cebuano dagom, Maranao ragom, Maguindanao ragum, Tausug jawm, and Malay jarum. Doublet of paraluman.
Pronunciation
Noun
karayom (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜇᜌᜓᜋ᜔)
- needle
- Synonyms: aguha, (obsolete) panulam
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “karayom”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- “karayom”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2024
- 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 35: “Aguja) Carayom [(pp)] de coſer [hordinariamẽte]”
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*zaRum”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI