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Tagalog
Etymology
Possibly from Sanskrit, possibly from either:
- From Sanskrit साधन (sādhana, “leading straight to a goal; bringing about, carrying out; acquisition; preparation”)
- From Sanskrit सन्धान (sandhāna, “bond; union; alliance; preparation”)
- From Sanskrit विधान (vidhāna, “rule, regulation; fate, accomplishment”).
Compare Ilocano sagana, Kapampangan tagana, Cebuano tagana, Hiligaynon tigana, Waray-Waray tagana, and Tausug tagama.
Pronunciation
Noun
tadhanà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇ᜔ᜑᜈ)
- fate; destiny
- Synonyms: kapalaran, suwerte, destino, kalma
- provision; stipulation; term (of an agreement, contract, ordinance, law, etc.)
- Synonyms: takda, probisyon, kondisyon
- determined and fixed time (for payment of debts, completion of an obligation, etc.)
- Synonyms: taning, takda
- nature
- Synonym: kalikasan
- (obsolete) assignment; destining
- Synonyms: talaga, takda, laan, destino
- (obsolete) warning; sign; advise
- Synonyms: bala, babala
- (obsolete) secret about a negotiation or affair
- (obsolete) act of preparing something in secret for a purpose
- (obsolete) arrangement of two people in accordance to their wishes
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “tadhana”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1230.
- 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
- Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte. (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot, page 254
- 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 180: “Conçierto) Tarhana (pc) de dos en voluntades conformes”
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 298
- Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1887) El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog (in Spanish), Paris: Imprimerie de la Faculté de Médecine, A. Davy, page 52