Sanglay

See also: sanglay

English

Noun

Sanglay (plural Sanglays or Sanglayes)

1. Alternative form of Sangley
   • 1833, Alick Osborne, Notes on the Present State and Prospects of Society in New South Wales:

     In 1639, on pretence of a concerted insurrection, twenty-three thousand Sanglayes (descendants of Chinese and natives) were put to the sword.

   • 1892, Onésime Reclus, A Bird's-eye View of the World, page 869:

     All these constituents - Christians or pagans, Tagals, Vicols, Chinese and Sanglays, Whites and Creoles, the subjugated and the untamed -- form a nation of 3 1/2 million men, including the neighboring islands.

   • 1998, Carlos Cortés, Lassitude and other stories, →ISBN, page 62:

     Take it to Sugbu, barter for it with the Sanglay, the Chinese. For metal implements. Knives, needles. Porcelain and celadon ware. The Sanglay come in their batwinged junks with the onset of the northeast monsoon, the amihan.

   • 2007, Gémino H. Abad, The Children's Hour: Stories on Childhood - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 122:

     Lim Pay went to the Parian — the pueblo of the Sanglays, where Father, Mother, and I often go after Sunday Mass to eat at the panciteria — to tell his friends that the gobernador was sending soldiers to take away their goods and close down their stores. Ah Beng said the Sanglays were very scared and some became angry.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• sanglay, sanlay

Etymology

From either Spanish Sangley or directly from Hokkien, possibly from:

• 常來／常来 (siâng lâi, literally “frequently comes”), as labeled in the Boxer Codex (1590), from which Mandarin 常來人／常来人 (chángláirén) referring to Sangleys originates and consistent with Francisco de Sande (1576)'s description of “Throughout these islands they call the Chinese 'Sangleyes', meaning 'a people who come and go,' on account of their habit of coming annually to these islands to trade, or, as they say there, 'the regular port'.” as per Manuel (1948)
• 生理 (seng-lí, “business; livelihood”, IPA: /ɕiɪŋ³³ li⁵⁵⁴/) as in 生理人 (seng-lí-lâng, “merchant; tradesman; trafficker”), according to Go (2014-2015) and Manuel (1948) as “sieng-lí” recorded in Piñol (1937)
• 商旅 (siang-lí, “travelling merchant”), according to Manuel (1948) & Hofileña (2011), which Go (2014-2015) considers to be "a rather literal term uncommon among early Chinese in the Philippines".
• 送來／送来 (sàng lâi, literally “sent over”) or 生理人來／生理人来 (seng-lí-lâng lâi, literally “businessman comes”), according to Chan-Yap (1980).
• 誰來／谁来 (siâng lâi / sâng lâi, literally “who comes”), as per Norberto Romualdez in Manuel (1948) who says that “sangley is a Spanish corruption of sang lay, signifying "who comes", an expression used by the Chinese in the Islands to greet a ship coming from China.”

Doublet of Sangley.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saŋˈlaj/, [sɐnˈlaɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Syllabification: Sang‧lay

Noun

Sangláy (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜅ᜔ᜎᜌ᜔)

1. Chinese trader or merchant
2. (historical) Alternative form of Sangley

Derived terms

• Kasanglayan
• magsanglay

 

See also

• langlang
• Tsino