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Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Hokkien 咱人 (lán-lâng, “we; us; Chinese”, literally “our people”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
langláng (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜅ᜔ᜎᜅ᜔)
- Chinese; of Chinese cuisine (especially pancit)
- Synonym: Tsino
Derived terms
Noun
langláng (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜅ᜔ᜎᜅ᜔)
- a kind of pancit with broth
- Synonym: pansit langlang
- (nautical, historical) Chinese corsair from the sixteenth century
- spice; condiment
- Synonyms: rekado, palabok
- (obsolete) Chinese (person)
- Synonyms: Tsino, Sanglay
Further reading
- “langlang”, 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
- 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 545: “Sangley) Langlang (pc) anſi llamauan los viejos deſtos [a los] ſangleyes cuando venian [a tratar] con ellos”
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