Tagalog

See also: tagalog

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Philippine *taga-

Tagalog taga-

Proto-Austronesian *-luR

Proto-Austronesian *qaluR

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaluR

Tagalog alog

Tagalog tagaalog?

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Tagalog taga-

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Proto-Austronesian *-luR

Proto-Austronesian *iluR

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *iluR

Proto-Philippine *íluR

Tagalog ilog

Tagalog tagailog?

Tagalog Tagal?

Tagalog Tagalogbor.

English Tagalog

Borrowed from Tagalog Tagalog.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Proper noun

Tagalog

1. A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the Philippines, especially in areas of central to southern Luzon.

   Synonym: Tagal

Derived terms

• Englog
• Tagalic
• Tagalist
• Tagalize
• Taglish
• Tayabas Tagalog

Translations

language

• Arabic: تَاغَالُوغِيَّة f (taḡaluḡiyya)
• Armenian: տագալերեն (tagaleren), տագալոգ (tagalog)
• Asturian: tagalu (ast)
• Belarusian: тага́льская мо́ва f (tahálʹskaja móva), тага́льская f (tahálʹskaja)
• Bengali: তাগালোগভাষা (tagalōgbhaśa)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: Tagalog (bcl)

• Bulgarian: тага́лог m (tagálog)
• Catalan: tagàlog m, tagal (ca)
• Cebuano: Tagalug, Tagalog, Tinagalog
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 他加祿語 / 他加禄语 (zh) (Tājiālù yǔ)

• Czech: tagalština (cs) f
• Danish: tagalog
• Esperanto: tagaloga (eo)
• Finnish: tagalog (fi)
• French: tagalog (fr) m
• Galician: tagalo (gl) m
• German: Tagalog (de) n
• Greek: ταγκαλόγκ (el) (tagkalógk)
• Hebrew: טאגאלוג
• Hindi: टागालोग भाषा (ṭāgālog bhāṣā), टागालोग (ṭāgālog)
• Hungarian: tagalog (hu)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: タガログ語 (ja) (タガログご, Tagarogu-go)
• Kapampangan: Tagalug
• Korean: 타갈로그어 (ko) (Tagallogeu-eo)
• 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)

Noun

Tagalog (plural Tagalogs or Tagalog)

1. A member of the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group.

   Synonyms: Tagal, (female) Tagala

2. (chiefly Cebu) a speaker of the Tagalog language

Translations

member of the Filipino ethnic group

• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: Tagalog (bcl)

• Cebuano: Tagalog, Tagalug
• Esperanto: tagalogo
• Finnish: tagaali
• Galician: tagalo (gl) m
• German: Tagale m
• Hungarian: tagalog (hu)
• Kapampangan: Tagalug
• Malay: orang Tagalog
• Russian: тага́л (ru) m (tagál)
• Turkish: Tagalog (tr)

Adjective

Tagalog (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Tagalogs.

   Synonym: (female) Tagala

Translations

of or relating to the Tagalogs

• Catalan: tagàlog
• Cebuano: Tagalog, Tagalug
• Esperanto: tagaloga (eo)
• Galician: tagalo (gl) m
• Hungarian: tagalog (hu)
• Kapampangan: Tagalug
• Malay: Tagalog
• Russian: тага́льский (ru) (tagálʹskij)
• Spanish: tagalo (es)
• Tagalog: Tagalog (tl)
• Turkish: Tagalog (tr)

See also

• 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 (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Tagalog, tgl ⁠

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːɡaːlɔk/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Tagalog n

1. Tagalog (language)

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Philippine *taga-

Tagalog taga-

Proto-Austronesian *-luR

Proto-Austronesian *qaluR

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaluR

Tagalog alog

Tagalog tagaalog?

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Tagalog taga-

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Proto-Austronesian *-luR

Proto-Austronesian *iluR

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *iluR

Proto-Philippine *íluR

Tagalog ilog

Tagalog tagailog?

Tagalog Tagal?

Tagalog Tagalog

Uncertain. Possibly:

• Syncopic form of tagaalog (“forder”), from taga- (“native of”) +‎ alog (“ford”).
• Syncopic form of tagailog (“river dweller”), from taga- (“native of”) +‎ ilog (“river”).
• From Tagal, the name of some tribes in Borneo or Sumatra.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈɡaloɡ/ [t̪ɐˈɣ̠aː.loɡ̠̚]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aloɡ
• Syllabification: Ta‧ga‧log

Proper noun

Tagalog (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔)

1. Tagalog language

   Synonym: (obsolete) wikang-tao

Derived terms

• isatagalog
• itagalog
• magtagalog
• managalog
• mananagalog
• pananagalog
• Tagalista
• tagalugin
• tangalog
• tumagalog

Descendants

• → Central Bikol: Tagalog
• → Cantonese: 他加祿語 / 他加禄语 (taa¹ gaa¹ luk⁶ jyu⁵)
• → Cebuano: Tinagalog, Tagalug
• → Czech: tagalog
• → Danish: tagalog
• → Dutch: Tagalog
• → English: Tagalog
• → Finnish: tagalog
• → French: tagalog
• → Icelandic: tagalog
• → Indonesian: Tagalog
• → Japanese: タガログ語 (Tagarogu-go)
• → Kapampangan: Tagalug
• → Korean: 타갈로그어 (Tagallogeu-eo)
• → Malay: Tagalog
• → Mandarin: 他加祿語 / 他加禄语 (Tājiālùyǔ)
• → Hokkien: 他加祿話 / 他加禄话 (Tha-ka-lo̍k-ōe), 他加祿語 / 他加禄语 (Thaⁿ-ka-lo̍k-gír)
• → Portuguese: tagalo
• → Spanish: tagalo, tagala
• → Tausug: Tagalug

See also

• wikang-tao

Noun

Tagalog (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔)

1. Tagalog (person)

   Coordinate term: (archaic, female) Tagala

Derived terms

• tangalog

Adjective

Tagalog (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔)

1. Tagalog (pertaining to the Tagalog region, the Tagalog people, or the Tagalog language)

Derived terms

• barahang-tagalog
• barong-tagalog
• Katagalugan
• melong-tagalog
• sibuyas-tagalog
• Timog Katagalugan

Further reading

• “Tagalog”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018