habla
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See also: hablá
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Old Spanish fabla, from Latin fābula (“discourse”). Compare fábula, a borrowed doublet.
Noun[edit]
habla f (plural hablas)
Usage notes[edit]
- Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
- el habla, un habla
- They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- hablar (“to speak”)
Descendants[edit]
- → Tagalog: abla
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
habla
- inflection of hablar:
- Habla. ― He [or she] speaks.
- (Usted) habla. (formal singular) ― (You) speak.
- ¡Habla! (informal singular) ― Speak!
Further reading[edit]
- “habla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish habla, the presence of an /h/ initial may indicate late borrowing. Doublet of abla.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hablá (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜊ᜔ᜎ)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “habla”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
Categories:
- Spanish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/abla
- Rhymes:Spanish/abla/2 syllables
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeh₂- (speak)
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish doublets
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish non-lemma forms
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- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
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