limlim
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Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Austronesian *dəmdəm (“gloom, darkness; dark, overcast, gloomy”), *ləmləm (“dark, of weather; overcast”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
limlím (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜋ᜔ᜎᜒᜋ᜔)
- sitting on eggs; brooding (of hens to hatch the eggs)
- Synonyms: halimlim, paghalimhim, yupyop, pagyupyop
- heat from a brooder; body warmth of a brooder
- Synonym: halimhim
- (by extension) incubation
- Synonym: ingkubasyon
- impending darkness (especially in the late afternoon)
- (obsolete) eclipse (especially a solar eclipse)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- chapter LIMLIM, 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[1], La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 58: “Anublarſe) Limlim (pc) el çielo”
- page 264: “Eclipſi) Limlim [(pc)] del sol”
- page 272: “Empollar) Limlim (pc) la galllina los gueuos”