badap
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from a blend of babae + dapat[1] or from a coinage from lyrics to short musical rhythm.[2]
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /baˈdap/ [bɐˈdap]
- Rhymes: -ap
- Syllabification: ba‧dap
Noun edit
badáp (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇᜉ᜔)
- (colloquial, gay slang) gay (male homosexual); effeminate man; womanish man; homosexual male; hermaphrodite
- 1981, The Diliman Review, Volume 29, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines:
- ...manonood, kolehiyala man o tsimay, macho o badap, ang sex. Pansinin na lamang ang hilatsa ng mga bagong lahi nina Rogelio de la Rosa at Carmen Rosales.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)