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salawal

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Hanunoo

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /salaˈwal/ [sa.laˈwɐl]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: sa‧la‧wal

Noun

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salawál (Hanunoo spelling ᜰᜮᜯᜮ᜴)

  1. alternative form of sarawar

Further reading

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  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953), Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 237

Tagalog

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Malay seluar, from Classical Malay سلور (seluar), borrowed from Classical Persian شلوار (šalwār), from Middle Persian [script needed] (šlwʾl /⁠šalwār⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *šarawāra, from Proto-Indo-European *skelo- + *wero-. Compare Pangasinan sanual, Kapampangan salol, Hanunoo sarawar, Central Bikol sarawal, Aklanon saewae, Koronadal Blaan salwal, Maranao saro'ar, Tausug sawwal, and Javanese ꦱꦿꦸꦮꦭ꧀ (sruwal).

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    salawál (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎᜏᜎ᜔)

    1. underpants
      Synonym: kalson
      • 1992, National Mid-week:
        Isang batang babae ang may nakalambitin sa likuran na batang paslit, mag-iisang taong gulang pa lang yata at walang salawal. Lumingon ang paslit. Kinawayan namin.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    2. trousers; pants; pantaloons
      Synonym: pantalon
    3. (dialectal) shorts
    4. (historical) precolonial dhoti-like knee-length pair of trousers worn by males

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    • Hanunoo: sarawar

    See also

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    Further reading

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    • salawal”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018