Tagalog

See also: tagalog

English

Etymology

From Tagalog Tagalog.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: təgäʹlŏg, təgălʹəg; IPA^(key): /təˈɡɑːlɒɡ/, /təˈɡæləɡ/
• (General American) enPR: təgäʹləg, təgäʹlôg; IPA^(key): /təˈɡɑləɡ/, /təˈɡɑlɔɡ/
• Hyphenation: Ta‧ga‧log

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Tagalog

1. A language spoken in the Philippines, especially in areas of central to southern Luzon.

   Synonym: Tagal

Derived terms

• Tayabas Tagalog

 

Translations

language

• Arabic: تَاغَالُوغِيَّة f (taḡaluḡiyya)
• Armenian: տագալերեն (tagaleren), տագալոգ (tagalog)
• Belarusian: тага́льская мо́ва f (tahálʹskaja móva), тага́льская f (tahálʹskaja)
• Bengali: তাগালোগভাষা (tagalōgbhaśa)
• Bulgarian: тага́лог m (tagálog)
• Catalan: tagàlog m, tagal (ca)
• Cebuano: Tagalug, Tagalog, Tinagalog
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 他加祿語／他加禄语 (zh) (Tājiālù yǔ)

• Czech: tagalština (cs) f
• Danish: tagalog
• Finnish: tagalog (fi)
• French: tagalog (fr) m
• Galician: tagalo (gl) m
• German: Tagalog (de) n
• Greek: ταγκαλόγκ (el) (tagkalógk)
• Hebrew: טאגאלוג
• Hindi: टागालोग भाषा (ṭāgālog bhāṣā), टागालोग (ṭāgālog)
• Hungarian: tagalog (hu)
• Japanese: タガログ語 (ja) (タガログご, Tagarogu-go)
• Kapampangan: Tagalug
• Korean: 타갈로그어 (ko) (Tagallogeu-eo)
• Malay: bahasa Tagalog
• Navajo: Kéyah Dańlíinii bikáaʼgi kéédahatʼínígíí bizaad
• Persian: زبان تاگالوگ
• Portuguese: tagalo (pt) m
• Russian: тага́льский (ru) m (tagálʹskij), тага́лог m (tagálog)
• Spanish: tagalo (es) m
• Swedish: tagalog (sv)
• Tagalog: Tagalog (tl)
• Thai: ภาษาตากาล็อก (th) (paa-sǎa dtaa-gaa-lɔ́k)
• Turkish: Tagalogca (tr)
• Ukrainian: тага́льська (uk) f (tahálʹsʹka), тага́лог m (taháloh)

Noun

Tagalog (plural Tagalogs or Tagalog)

1. A member of the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group.

   Synonyms: Tagal, (female) Tagala

2. (chiefly Cebu) a speaker of the Tagalog language

Translations

member of the Filipino ethnic group

• Cebuano: Tagalog, Tagalug
• Finnish: tagaali
• Galician: tagalo (gl) m
• German: Tagale m
• Hungarian: tagalog (hu)
• Kapampangan: Tagalug
• Malay: orang Tagalog
• Russian: тага́л (ru) m (tagál)
• Turkish: Tagalog (tr)

Adjective

Tagalog (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Tagalogs.

   Synonym: (female) Tagala

Translations

of or relating to the Tagalogs

• Catalan: tagàlog
• Cebuano: Tagalog, Tagalug
• Galician: tagalo (gl) m
• Hungarian: tagalog (hu)
• Kapampangan: Tagalug
• Malay: Tagalog
• Russian: тага́льский (ru) (tagálʹskij)
• Spanish: tagalo (es)
• Tagalog: Tagalog (tl)
• Turkish: Tagalog (tr)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tagalog terms
• Appendix:Tagalog Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Tagalog

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code tl, ISO 639-3 code tgl (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Tagalog, tgl ⁠

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːɡaːlɔk/

• audio

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Proper noun

Tagalog n

1. Tagalog (language)

Tagalog

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly:

• From taga- (“native of”) +‎ alog (“ford”).
• From taga- (“native of”) +‎ ilog (“river”).
• From Tagal, the name of some tribes in Borneo or Sumatra.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈɡaloɡ/, [tɐˈɣa.loɡ]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aloɡ
• Syllabification: Ta‧ga‧log

Noun

Tagalog (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔)

1. Tagalog language

   Synonym: (obsolete) wikang-tao

2. Tagalog (person)

   Synonym: (female) Tagala

Adjective

Tagalog (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔)

1. Tagalog (pertaining to the Tagalog region, the Tagalog people, or the Tagalog language)

Derived terms

• barahang-tagalog
• barong-tagalog
• isatagalog
• itagalog
• Katagalugan
• magtagalog
• managalog
• mananagalog
• pananagalog
• Tagalista
• tagalugin
• Timog Katagalugan
• tumagalog

 

Descendants

• → Cantonese: 他加祿語／他加禄语 (taa¹ gaa¹ luk⁶ jyu⁵)
• → Cebuano: Tinagalog, Tagalug
• → Czech: tagalog
• → Danish: tagalog
• → Dutch: Tagalog
• → English: Tagalog
• → Finnish: tagalog
• → French: tagalog
• → Icelandic: tagalog
• → Indonesian: Tagalog
• → Japanese: タガログ語 (Tagarogu-go)
• → Kapampangan: Tagalug
• → Korean: 타갈로그어 (Tagallogeu-eo)
• → Malay: Tagalog
• → Mandarin: 他加祿語／他加禄语 (Tājiālùyǔ)
• → Min Nan: 他加祿話／他加禄话 (Tha-ka-lo̍k-ōe), 他加祿語／他加禄语 (Thaⁿ-ka-lo̍k-gír)
• → Portuguese: tagalo
• → Spanish: tagalo, tagala

See also

• wikang-tao

Further reading

• “Tagalog”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018