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Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pay‧pay
  • IPA(key): /ˈpajpaj/

Noun

paypay

  1. fan

Verb

paypay

  1. to fan
  2. to hang out to dry
    Synonym: hayhay

Chavacano

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog paypay (“fan”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paʝˈpai/,
  • Hyphenation: pay‧pay

Noun

paypáy

  1. fan

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Kankanaey) IPA(key): /pajˈpaj/
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Syllabification: pay‧pay

Noun

paypáy

  1. a ritual right before a burial to have space from the spirits that reside on the burial site
  2. a ritual to return a wandering soul from abroad into the body of a sick person
  3. a practice that farmer parents do to speak to their infant's soul to not get left behind on the field
  4. a practice that insulted girls do wherein a prayer/curse is put on a stone or chicken

Derived terms

References

  • Caridad B. Fiar-od (2021 April 17) “Benguet: The Peg-as and Paypay rituals”, in Igorot Cordillera BIMAAK-Europe‎, archived from the original on 2021-05-10
  • Morice Vanoverbergh (1972) “Kankanay Religion (Northern Luzon, Philippines)”, in Anthropos‎, volume 67, number 1/2 (in English and Kankanaey), Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, page 115

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *paypáy (“to wave the hand, as in beckoning someone or in fanning oneself”). Onomatopoeic in origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

paypáy (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜌ᜔ᜉᜌ᜔)

  1. act of fanning
    Synonym: pagpaypay
  2. a hand fan
    Synonyms: pamaypay, abaniko
  3. a flap of air
    Synonym: ihip
  4. shoulder blade
    Synonyms: payumpong, balagat, eskapula, bleyd
  5. (colloquial) shoulder
    Synonym: balikat

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Spanish: paipay

Further reading

  • “paypay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*paypáy”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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