kamuning

See also: Kamuning

English

Noun

kamuning (uncountable)

1. (Philippines) orange jessamine (Murraya paniculata)
   • 2017, Macario Pineda, Love in the Rice Fields: And Other Short Stories:

     The kamuning leaves had been deftly arranged to form the name REGINA on the altar, and right below were the words REQUIESCANT IN PACE.

Anagrams

• unmaking

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay kemuning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kamuˈniŋ/ [kɐ.mʊˈn̪iŋ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧mu‧ning

Noun

kamuníng (Badlit spelling ᜃᜋᜓᜈᜒᜅ᜔)

1. orange jessamine (Murraya paniculata)

Kapampangan

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay kemuning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmʊˈniŋ/ [kə.mʊˈnɪŋ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧mu‧ning
• Rhymes: -iŋ

Noun

kamuning

1. orange jessamine (Murraya paniculata)

Sundanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kamuniŋ. Cognate of Indonesian kemuning, Tagalog kamuning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kamuniŋ/
• Hyphenation: ka‧mu‧ning

Noun

kamuning (Sundanese script ᮊᮙᮥᮔᮤᮀ)

1. orange jessamine (Murraya paniculata)

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kamuniŋ?

Proto-Malayic *kuniŋ

Malay kuning

Malay -em-

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Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kamuniŋ

Malay kemuningbor.?

Tagalog kamuning

Possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kamuniŋ, or possibly borrowed from Malay kemuning.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kamuˈniŋ/ [k̠ɐ.mʊˈn̪ɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -iŋ
• Syllabification: ka‧mu‧ning

Noun

kamuníng (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜋᜓᜈᜒᜅ᜔)

1. orange jessamine (Murraya paniculata)

Further reading

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