palo-palo

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Cebuano

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Reduplication of palo.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: pa‧lo‧pa‧lo

Noun

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palo-palo

  1. a batlet; a short bat for beating clothes when washing them; a washing paddle
  2. arrowfin goby; any member of the genus Oxyurichthys

Verb

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palo-palo

  1. to beat clothes when washing

Tagalog

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Noun

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palò-palò (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜓᜉᜎᜓ)

  1. Alternative form of palopalo

Further reading

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  • palo-palo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018