katalonan

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• catalonan, catolonan — archaic, Spanish-based orthography
• katalunan, katolonan, katulonan, katulunan

Etymology

From earlier variant katulunan, from *tulon (“intercession; possession”) +‎ ka- -an. Compare Kapampangan katulunan (“seer”), Cebuano katuulan (“prophetess”), and Malay keturunan (“possession”). Doublet of katalona. See also Kapampangan tulun (“come to mind”), Tausug tulun (“something given by God”), Malay turun (“descend”), and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuʀun (“to descend, go down; to lower”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kataˈlonan/ [kɐ.tɐˈlo.nɐn]
• Rhymes: -onan
• Syllabification: ka‧ta‧lo‧nan

Noun

katalonan (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜎᜓᜈᜈ᜔) (historical)

1. shaman; priest (any gender)

   Synonyms: babaylan, katalona

See also

• pitulon
• suwagi

 

References

• “katalonan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 470.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 424: “Miniſtro) Catolonan (pp) de las diabluras y anitos antiguos de eſtos, tenian los grandiſimo [temor por] que creian les podian matar y dar vida con ſus hechiços (necedad) eran mugeres de ordinario”
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2017) Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 593