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Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay teraju, from Classical Malay تراجو (teraju), from Classical Persian ترازو (tarāzū), from Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬀.𐬀𐬰𐬎 (tara.azu). Compare Ilocano taradio, Kapampangan talaru, Bikol Central tarayo, Cebuano talayo, Javanese ꦠꦿꦗꦸ (traju), Old Javanese taraju, and Tamil தராசு (tarācu).
Pronunciation
Noun
talarô or talarò (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜇᜓ)
- scales; balance (for weighing)
- Synonyms: timbangan, balansa, baskula, patitis
- weight (piece of metal used in weighing)
- hand or pointer in a scale
- (figurative) ponderation; contemplation
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Further reading
- “talaro”, 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
- 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
- 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 479: “Peſar) Talaro (pp) cõ peſo de balanças algo”
- page 480: “Peſo) Talaro (pp) de balanças chico o grande”
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 303
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “balance”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI