sampu

Tagalog

Tagalog cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sampu     Ordinal : ikasampu

Alternative forms

• sampo – colloquial
• sampouo, sangpouo – obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• sampuo, sampuwo, sangpuwo – obsolete

Etymology

From sampuo / sampuwo, from older sampúlo, ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *sa-ŋa-puluq (“ten”). Compare Ilocano sangapulo, Bikol Central sampulo, Malay sepuluh, Bima sampuru, and Hawaiian anahulu (“period of ten days”). By surface analysis, sam- +‎ pu, literally “one ten”.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sam‧pu
• IPA^(key): /samˈpuʔ/, [sɐmˈpuʔ]

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Numeral

sampû (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜋ᜔ᜉᜓ)

1. ten

   Synonym: diyes

Usage notes

• To describe the quantity of something, the number is placed before the noun and affixed with the (-ng) enclitic suffix when the word ends with a vowel or with the "na" preposition for those ending in a consonant.

  Isang saging, dalawang pinya

  Apat na mansanas, anim na mangga

Derived terms

• ikasampu
• kasampu
• makasampu
• pagsampuin
• panampu
• pansampu
• pansampu
• pasampu
• sampuan
• sampuin
• sampung daan
• sampung laksa
• sampung libo
• Sampung Utos
• sasampuin
• tigsampu

 

See also

• labing-

Further reading

• “sampu”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier