suklay

Tagalog

Etymology

Compare Kapampangan sukle, Central Bikol sukray, Aklanon sudlay, Cebuano sudlay, Waray-Waray sudlay, and Tausug sudlay. See also Suku sunday, Maranao salday, Western Bukidnon Manobo seglay, and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sunday (“comb”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /sukˈlaj/ [sʊkˈlaɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Syllabification: suk‧lay

Noun

sukláy (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜃ᜔ᜎᜌ᜔)

1. comb

   Synonym: peyneta

Derived terms

• bulang gasuklay
• gasuklay
• kahiramang-suklay
• magsuklay
• pagsusuklay
• panuklay
• pasuklayan
• suklayan
• suklayin

See also

• almohasa
• suyod

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• sulyak