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Tagalog
Etymology
From malik + mata. The word malik is an archaic apheretic form of bumalik, from balik.
Pronunciation
Noun
malíkmatá or malikmatà (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎᜒᜃ᜔ᜋᜆ)
- someone or something perceived to be someone or something but on the contrary; someone or something mistaken for someone or something
- Synonym: transpigurasyon
- phantasm; illusion; visual deception
- Synonyms: kini-kinita, ilusyon, pantasmagorya
- anything that has properties to morph or change form
- Synonym: transpigurasyon
- an amulet that gives invisibility
- Synonyms: tagabulag, tagibulag
- sleight of hand
- Synonym: salamangka
- (obsolete) act of concealment or disgusing oneself
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See also
Further reading
- “malikmata”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 750.
- 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 256: “Diſimularſe) Malicmata(pc) o disfraçarſe de lo que es”