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English
Noun
katmon (plural katmons)
- Dillenia philippinensis, a tree endemic to the Philippines, whose fruit is known as the elephant apple.
Cebuano
Etymology
Compare Tagalog katmon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkatmon/
- Hyphenation: kat‧mon
Noun
katmon (Badlit spelling ᜃᜆ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)
- Dillenia philippinensis, a species of tree endemic to the Philippines
- fruit from this tree; elephant apple
- wood from this tree
Derived terms
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Central Philippine *katmun (“Dillenia philippinensis”). Compare Bikol Central katmon, Cebuano katmon and Kapampangan katmun.
Pronunciation
Noun
katmón (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)
- katmon (Dillenia philippinensis; a species of tree endemic to the Philippines)
- elephant apple (fruit from this tree)
- katmon wood
Derived terms
Further reading
- “katmon”, 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
- Zorc, David Paul (1981) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 2, page 83