katuray

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *katúday.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈtuɾaj/ [kɐˈtuː.ɾaɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -uɾaj
• Syllabification: ka‧tu‧ray

Noun

katuray (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜓᜇᜌ᜔)

1. vegetable hummingbird (Sesbania grandiflora)

Further reading

• “katuray”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*katúday”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI