dalatan
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Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Malay daratan, from darat + -an, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀat (“littoral sea”). Compare Ilocano darat (“sand”). By surface analysis, dalat + -an. Doublet of dagat.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /daˈlatan/, [dɐˈla.tɐn]
- Rhymes: -atan
- Syllabification: da‧la‧tan
Noun[edit]
dalatan (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜎᜆᜈ᜔)
- cultivated highland (especially for rice)
- Antonym: tubigan
- land (as opposed to sea or ocean)
- Synonym: katihan
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Further reading[edit]
- “dalatan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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- Tagalog terms borrowed from Malay
- Tagalog terms derived from Malay
- Tagalog terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Tagalog terms suffixed with -an
- Tagalog doublets
- Tagalog 3-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/atan
- Rhymes:Tagalog/atan/3 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script