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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /siˈak/
- Hyphenation: si‧yak
Noun
siyák (Basahan spelling ᜐᜒᜌᜃ᜔)
- Alternative form of silyak
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Brunei Malay syeikh, from Arabic شَيْخ (šayḵ). Compare Kapampangan siak, Tausug sī, and Indonesian syekh. Doublet of heke.
Pronunciation
Noun
siyák (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜌᜃ᜔) (obsolete)
- (poetic) sage; prophet
- (Islam) sheik
- Synonym: heke
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Further reading
- “siyak”, 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 448: “Obiſpo( Siac (pc) o maeſtro de los moros, es Bocablo Burney, y de [alla venia] a esta tierra a enſeñar la hedionda ley de Mahoma, traya vna como mitra.”
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2017) Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 525
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