silab

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: si‧lab

Verb

silab

  1. to set alight; to cause to begin to burn; to set ablaze

Maranao

Noun

silab

  1. blade
    Synonym: garangan

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *sil(ə)qáb (“to set on fire, to burn”). Compare Cebuano silab and Kapampangan silab.

Pronunciation

Noun

siláb (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜊ᜔)

  1. blaze; conflagration; big fire
    Synonym: sunog
  2. bonfire
    Synonym: siga
  3. setting fire; burning (of garbage, weeds, grass, etc.)

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

Volapük

Noun

silab (nominative plural silabs)

  1. syllable

Declension

declension of silab
singular plural
nominative silab silabs
genitive silaba silabas
dative silabe silabes
accusative silabi silabis
vocative 1 o silab! o silabs!
predicative 2 silabu silabus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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