sanglay

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English

Noun

sanglay (plural sanglays or sanglayes)

  1. Alternative form of Sangley
    • 2001, Mauro Fernández, Shedding Light on the Chabacano Language, page 132:
      'Kitchen Spanish' as spoken by Chinese sanglays as they were known in the Philippines is typified by the following example ..."
    • 2013, Alice P. Magos, “Chants, Gongs and Ancestral Memories of the Panay Bukidnon, Philippine Islands”, in Musika Jornal, volume 9:
      Scions of old chanters like National Living Treasure for Epic Literature, Federico “Tuohan” Caballero, mentions a sanglay as gong bearer. As such, a gong must have gotten to the interior through trade or leisure sea travel.
    • 2014, José Antonio Martínez Torres, “'There is but one world': Globalisation and connections in the overseas territories of the Spanish Habsburgs (1581-1640)”, in Culture & History Digital Journal, volume 3, number 1:
      Different spaces and times crossed and confronted each other. In Manila, for instance, the district of the Chinese merchants, or sanglays, was organised according to the Chinese calendar.

Tagalog

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saŋəlaʀ (“to stir-fry, cook in a frying pan without oil”), possibly via Kapampangan sanglai, archaic form of sangle. Compare Bikol Central sanglag, Hiligaynon sanlag, Cebuano sanglag, Maranao sendag, Indonesian sangrai, and Malay selar. Doublet of sangag. See also sanglal.

Noun

sangláy (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜅ᜔ᜎᜌ᜔) (obsolete)

  1. frying in lard or oil
    Synonyms: sangag, prito
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Etymology 2

See Sanglay.

Noun

sangláy (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜅ᜔ᜎᜌ᜔)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Sanglay

Adjective

sangláy (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜅ᜔ᜎᜌ᜔)

  1. (dialectal, Southern Tagalog) dull-minded; stolid; of passive expression

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