Cebuano

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ka‧hig

Verb

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kahig

  1. to drag
  2. to rake

Noun

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kahig

  1. a rake
  2. a harrow

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:kahig.

Anagrams

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiʀ (scratch the ground, as a chicken does).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kahig (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜑᜒᜄ᜔)

  1. scratching of a chicken searching for food or preparing for a cockfight
  2. act of cleaning garbage using a rake

Derived terms

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Further reading

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