halilaya

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay hari raya (“holiday; festival; Eid”). In Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, it was defined as “a particular fast”, but Potet (2013) thinks that it refers not to a fast, but Eid al-Fitr which ends the Ramadan fast. Compare Tausug Haylaya. Doublet of Hariraya Puasa.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /haliˈlaja/ [hɐ.lɪˈlaː.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Syllabification: ha‧li‧la‧ya

Noun

halilaya (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜎᜒᜎᜌ) (Islam, obsolete)

1. Eid al-Fitr

   Synonym: Hariraya Puasa

References

• “halilaya”, 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
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 126