anluwagi

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• aluagui, anloague, anlouagi, anlouagui, louagi — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• alwagi, anlowage, anluagi, anluwage, anluage
• luwagi — obsolete

Etymology

Compare Ilocano allawagi, Kapampangan anluagi, and Javanese ꦲꦸꦤ꧀ꦝꦒꦶ (undhagi).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔanluˈaɡi/, [ʔɐnˈlwa.ɣɪ]
• Rhymes: -aɡi
• Syllabification: an‧lu‧wa‧gi

Noun

anluwagi (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈ᜔ᜎᜓᜏᜄᜒ) (now dialectal)

1. carpenter (especially of bamboo or wooden structures or furniture)

   Synonyms: karpintero, panday-kahoy

   • 1965, Rufino Alejandro, Salamin ng buhay: ikalawang taon, page 185:

     Kung ayaw po ninyong tanungin ang marami pang tao'y ang anluwagi na lamang na gumawa ng bahay na ito ang inyong kausapin.

     If you do not like to ask more people, then just ask the carpenter who made this house.

Usage notes

• This term is now generally used in literary works, and is displaced by the Spanish loanword karpintero colloquially.

Derived terms

• kaanluwagihan
• mag-anluwagi
• pag-aanluwagi
• pag-anluwagihan

 

See also

• maglalapat

 

Further reading

• “anluwagi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 149: “Carpintero) Anlovagi (pp) de labrar madera”
  • page 380: “Labrar) Anlovagi (pp) madera”