kudlit

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• corlit — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• kurlit

Etymology

Compare kulit.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kudˈlit/ [k̠ʊd̪ˈl̪ɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: kud‧lit

Noun

kudlít (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜇ᜔ᜎᜒᜆ᜔)

1. tiny cut or incision (on the skin or any surface)

   Synonyms: kadlit, kudlis, galos, gurlis

2. tick; small mark

   Synonym: tsek

3. mark; line; scratch; stroke

   Synonym: galos

4. (orthography) apostrophe

   Synonyms: tudlik, apostrope, apostropo, apostropi

5. act of making an apostrophe mark
6. (linguistics, orthography, typography) accent mark

   Synonym: tuldik

7. Baybayin diacritics

Derived terms

• kudlitan
• magkudlit
• pagkukudlit

Further reading

• “kudlit”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Serrano Laktaw, Pedro (1914), Diccionario tagálog-hispano (overall work in Tagalog and Spanish), Intramuros, Manila: Ateneo de Manila., page 514
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎^[1] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.

Anagrams

• tudlik, tuldik