malanasi

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Kapampangan malanasi, according to the Vocabulario de la lengua tagala (1860). From mala- +‎ nasi, literally “boiled rice-like”.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /malaˈnasiʔ/ [mɐ.lɐˈn̪aː.sɪʔ]
• Rhymes: -asiʔ
• Syllabification: ma‧la‧na‧si

Noun

malanasì (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎᜈᜐᜒ)

1. a species of banana that produces fruit with green seeds

Further reading

• “malanasi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 685
• 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