hanggan

Central Bikol

Alternative forms

• hanggang

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog hanggan (“limit, end”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haŋˈɡan/ [haŋˈɡan̪]
• IPA^(key): /ʔaŋˈɡan/ [ʔaŋˈɡan̪] (h-dropping)
• Hyphenation: hang‧gan

Conjunction

hanggán (Basahan spelling ᜑᜅ᜔ᜄᜈ᜔)

1. until

   Synonym: sagkod

Preposition

hanggán (Basahan spelling ᜑᜅ᜔ᜄᜈ᜔)

1. until

   Synonyms: sagkod, hasta

Tagalog

Etymology

From Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *haŋga (“until, as far as”). Compare hangga, Kapampangan angga, and Hanunoo hanggan. Possibly containing a fossilized suffix *-an, or back-formation, from hangganan, via hangga +‎ -nan.

For the sense "mathematics", it was coined by Lupon sa Agham (Committee on Science) in the Maugnaying Talasalitaang Pang-agham : Ingles-Pilipino (Correlative Word List for Sciences : English-Filipino), published in 1969 and edited by Gonsalo del Rosario. This term fell under the Kublupon sa Sipnayan (Subcommittee on Mathematics), headed by Manuel M. Maravilla.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /haŋˈɡan/ [hɐŋˈɡan̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: hang‧gan

Noun

hanggán (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜅ᜔ᜄᜈ᜔)

1. limit; boundary

   Synonyms: hangga, takda

2. end

   Synonyms: wakas, katapusan, hangga

3. (mathematics, neologism) limit

   Synonym: hgn

Derived terms

• hangga't
• hangganan
• hanggang
• hanggang sa muli
• kahanggan
• kahangganan
• kawalang-hanggan
• magpasawalang-hanggan
• may-hanggan
• walang-hanggan
• walang-hangganan

Further reading

• “hanggan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*haŋga”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Anagrams

• anghang