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Tagalog
Etymology
Possibly related to Malay renung (“meditation, thinking”). Compare dunong.
Pronunciation
Noun
talinong (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜒᜈᜓᜅ᜔)
- sharpness of memory; photographic memory
- Synonyms: talino, dunong, talas ng isip
- matalinong na tao ― person with sharp memory
- (Batangas, obsolete) act of being certain towards something
- Synonyms: tanto, tiyak, usisa, ulositha, alusitha, talastas, sunghi, sudhi
- (obsolete) act of becoming apt or informed (through time or exercise of an action)
Hindi ako makatalinong niyan.- I am not apt for that. or I cannot figure that out.
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Adjective
talinong (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜒᜈᜓᜅ᜔)
- (obsolete) understood
- Synonyms: alam, tukoy, naintindihan, tanto, tiyak, batid
Further reading
- “talinong”, 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 612: “Zertificarſe) Talinong (pp) en algo”