kulong
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Compare kulot.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ku‧lot
Adjective edit
kulong
- (of hair) wavy
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuruŋ (“cage, as for an animal; to enclose in a cage or pen”). Compare Ilocano kurong, Kapampangan kulung, Tausug kūngan, and Malay kurung.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
kulóng (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜎᜓᜅ᜔)
- imprisoned; jailed; interned; locked up
- Synonyms: nakakulong, nakabilanggo
- Huli ka pero 'di ka kulong.
- You were caught but you won't be arrested (i.e. caught doing something embarrassing)
- caged; confined in a pen, sty, kennel, coop, etc.
- Synonyms: nakakulong, nakakural, nakahawla
- surrounded; encircled (as of by enemies)
- Synonyms: ligid, aligid, naliligiran, napaliligiran, naaaligiran, kubkob, nakakubkob
- enclosed (as by a fence)
- Synonym: nababakuran
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
kulóng (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜎᜓᜅ᜔)
- condition of being imprisoned or jailed
- Synonyms: pagkakakulong, pagkakabilanggo
- condition of being surrounded or encircled (as of by enemies)
Further reading edit
- “kulong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018