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Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay tenung (“fortune-telling”). Compare Javanese ꦠꦼꦤꦸꦁ (tenung, “black magic”) and Sundanese ᮒᮨᮔᮥᮔ᮪ᮌ᮪ (tenung, “clairvoyance”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tanóng (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜈᜓᜅ᜔)
- question (something being asked about)
- Synonym: katanungan
- question; problem (in a test or examination)
- act of asking (a question)
- Synonym: pagtatanong
- act of inquiring (about something)
- Synonyms: usisa, pag-uusisa
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tanong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- 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 494: “Preguntar) Tanong (pc) qualquier coſa”
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “tell: divine, find by divination, tell fortunes”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI