bahala

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Tagalog[edit]

Tagalog numbers (edit)
[a], [b] ←  100,000  ←  10,000,000 (107) 100,000,000 (108) 1,000,000,000 (109)  → 
    Cardinal: sandaang angaw, sambahala
    Spanish cardinal: siyento milyones
    Ordinal: ikasandaang angaw, pansandaang angaw, ikabahala, pangbahala, ikasambahala
    Ordinal abbreviation: ika-100000000, pang-100000000
    Collective: bahala

Etymology[edit]

From Sanskrit भार (bhāra, “burden; load; weight”).[1] Compare Kapampangan bala, Cebuano bála / baláha (“to carry something on the back, not tied”),[2] Malay bahara (“weight”),[3][4] and Javanese ꦧꦫ (bara, “hundred million”). Otherwise, it may also possibly be from Bathala, which was from Sanskrit भट्टार (bhaṭṭāra, “revered, worshipful”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /baˈhalaʔ/, [bɐˈha.lɐʔ]
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ha‧la

Noun[edit]

bahalà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜑᜎ)

  1. responsibility
  2. ː Synonym: responsabilidad
  3. person responsible
    Synonyms: tagapangasiwa, katiwala, patnugot, tagapangalaga, tagapamahala
  4. management; custody; charge
    Synonyms: pangangasiwa, pamamatnubay, pamamatnugot
  5. apprehension; presentiment

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Adjective[edit]

bahalà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜑᜎ)

  1. answerable; accountable; responsible

Numeral[edit]

bahalà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜑᜎ) (obsolete)

  1. hundred million
    Synonyms: sandaang milyon, sampung kati

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 276
  2. ^ John U. Wolff (1972) A dictionary of Cebuano Visayan‎[1] (overall work in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
  3. ^ “bahara” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
  4. ^ Jose G. Kuizon (1964) The Sanskrit Loan-Words in the Cebuano-Bisayan Language‎[2], Cebu City: University of San Carlos, page 118

Further reading[edit]

Ternate[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Most likely ultimately deriving from Arabic بَلَاء (balāʔ)

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bahala

  1. disaster

Alternative forms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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