Tagalog

See also: tagalog

English

Etymology

From Tagalog Tagalog, from taga- (“native of”) + ilog (“river”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: təgäʹlŏg, təgălʹəg; IPA^(key): /təˈɡɑːlɒɡ/, /təˈɡæləɡ/
• (General American) enPR: təgäʹləg, təgäʹlôg; IPA^(key): /təˈɡɑləɡ/, /təˈɡɑlɔɡ/
• Hyphenation: Taga‧log

• Audio (US)

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Noun

Tagalog (countable and uncountable, plural Tagalog or Tagalogs)

1. (uncountable) A language spoken in the Philippines, in the area of central to southern Luzon.
2. (countable) A member of the largest Filipino ethnic group.

Synonyms

• Tagal

Translations

language

• Arabic: تَاغَالُوغِيَّة‎ f (taḡaluḡiyya)
• Armenian: տագալերեն (tagaleren), տագալոգ (tagalog)
• Belarusian: тага́льская мо́ва f (tahálʹskaja móva), тага́льская f (tahálʹskaja)
• Bengali: তাগালোগভাষা (tagalogbhaśa)
• Bulgarian: тага́лог m (tagálog)
• Catalan: tagàlog m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 他加祿語 (zh), 他加禄语 (zh) (tājiālùyǔ)

• Czech: tagalština f
• Danish: tagalog
• Finnish: tagalog (fi)
• French: tagalog (fr) m
• Galician: tagalo (gl) m
• German: Tagalog (de) n
• Hebrew: טאגאלוג‎

• Hindi: टागालोग भाषा (ṭāgālog bhāṣā), टागालोग (ṭāgālog)
• Hungarian: tagalog (hu)
• Japanese: タガログ語 (ja) (タガログご, tagarogugo)
• Korean: 타갈로그어 (ko) (tagallogeueo)
• Malay: bahasa Tagalog
• Navajo: Kéyah Dańlíinii bikáaʼgi kéédahatʼínígíí bizaad
• Persian: زبان تاگالوگ‎
• Portuguese: tagalo (pt) m
• Russian: тага́льский (ru) m (tagálʹskij), тага́лог m (tagálog)
• Spanish: tagalo (es) m
• Swedish: tagalog (sv)
• Tagalog: Tagalog (tl)
• Thai: ภาษาตากาล็อก (th) (paa-sǎa dtaa-gaa-lɔ́k)
• Turkish: Tagalogca (tr)
• Ukrainian: тага́льська (uk) f (tahálʹsʹka), тага́лог m (taháloh)

member of the Filipino ethnic group

• Finnish: tagaali
• Galician: tagalo (gl) m
• German: Tagale m
• Hungarian: tagalog (hu)

• Malay: orang Tagalog
• Russian: тага́л (ru) m (tagál)
• Turkish: Tagalog (tr)

Adjective

Tagalog (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Tagalogs.

Translations

of or relating to the Tagalogs

• Catalan: tagàlog
• Galician: tagalo (gl) m
• Hungarian: tagalog (hu)
• Malay: Tagalog

• Russian: тага́льский (ru) (tagálʹskij)
• Spanish: tagalo (es)
• Tagalog: Tagalog (tl)
• Turkish: Tagalog (tr)

See also

• Tagalog index
• Wiktionary's coverage of Tagalog terms
• Appendix:Tagalog Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Tagalog

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code tl, ISO 639-3 code tgl
• Ethnologue entry for Tagalog, tl

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːɡaːlɔk/

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Proper noun

Tagalog n

1. Tagalog (language)

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Tagalog

Etymology

From taga- (“native of”) + ilog (“river”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɐˈɡaːloɡ/

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Noun

Tagalog (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔)

1. The Tagalog language.

Verb

Tagalog (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔)

1. To speak in the Tagalog language.

Adjective

Tagalog (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔)

1. Pertaining to someone or something of the Tagalog-speaking regions in the Philippines.