ampalaya

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English

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Etymology

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From Tagalog ampalaya.

Noun

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ampalaya (plural ampalayas)

  1. (Philippines) bitter melon
    • 2016, Micky Fenix, “What the early Filipinos ate at the time of the Spaniards”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:
      As we can all guess correctly, bitterness was obtained from plants like the ampalaya.

Kankanaey

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Pronunciation

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  • (Standard Kankanaey) IPA(key): /ʔampalaˈja/ [ʔʌm.pʌ.lʌˈja]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: am‧pa‧la‧ya

Noun

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ampalayá

  1. bitter melon

Masbatenyo

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Noun

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ampalaya

  1. bitter melon

Tagalog

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paria (bitter melon). Compare Ilocano paria, Pangasinan palya, Kapampangan apalia, Masbatenyo ampalaya, Cebuano paliya, and Malay peria. Doublet of apalya.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ampalayá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋ᜔ᜉᜎᜌ)

  1. bitter melon
    Synonyms: amargoso, apalya
  2. (figurative) selfish person

Further reading

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  • ampalaya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*paria”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
  • Zorc, David Paul (1979–1983) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 1, page 14