Tayabas

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæˈjɑbɑs/

Proper noun

Tayabas

1. A city in Quezon, Philippines.
2. (historical) A former name of Quezon from 1754 to 1946, a province in the Philippines.

Derived terms

• Tayabas Tagalog

 

Translations

city in the Philippines

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔亞巴斯／塔亚巴斯 (Tǎyàbāsī)

• Japanese: タヤバス (Tayabasu)
• Spanish: Tayabas
• Tagalog: Tayabas (tl)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog Tayabas.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /taˈʝabas/ [t̪aˈʝa.β̞as]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /taˈʝabas/ [t̪aˈʝa.β̞as]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /taˈʃabas/ [t̪aˈʃa.β̞as]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /taˈʒabas/ [t̪aˈʒa.β̞as]

• Rhymes: -abas
• Syllabification: Ta‧ya‧bas

Proper noun

Tayabas ?

1. Tayabas (a city in Quezon, Philippines)
2. (historical) Tayabas (a former name of Quezon from 1754 to 1946, a province in the Philippines)

Derived terms

• tayabense
• tayabeño

 

Tagalog

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibilities include:

• From tayabas, a variant of bayabas (“guava”).
• From tayaba (“a local practice of igba for planting crops”).
• From tagabas (“native fern”)
• From tayaban (“night creature known for having wings that glow like a tropical firefly”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈjabas/ [tɐˈja.bɐs]
• Rhymes: -abas
• Syllabification: Ta‧ya‧bas

Proper noun

Tayabas (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜌᜊᜐ᜔)

1. Tayabas (a city in Quezon, Philippines)
2. (historical) Tayabas (a former name of Quezon from 1754 to 1946, a province in the Philippines; included parts of Aurora, Marinduque, and Camarines Norte at different points in time)

Derived terms

• Tayabasin
• Tayabense

 

Related terms

• Tayabeña
• Tayabeño

 

Descendants

• Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 塔亞巴斯／塔亚巴斯 (Tǎyàbāsī)
• English: Tayabas
• Japanese: タヤバス (Tayabasu)
• Spanish: Tayabas

See also

• Kalilayan

Further reading

• Tayabas on the Tagalog Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tl