lakatan

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: la‧ka‧tan

Noun

lakatan

1. a diploid banana cultivar from the Philippines

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *lakatán. Compare Ilocano lakatan, Pangasinan lakatan, Kapampangan lakatan, Bikol Central lakatan, and Cebuano lakatan, and Hiligaynon lakatan.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /lakaˈtan/ [lɐ.xɐˈt̪an̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: la‧ka‧tan

Noun

lakatán (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜃᜆᜈ᜔)

1. lakatan banana (diploid banana cultivar from the Philippines)

See also

• latundan

Further reading

• “lakatan” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[1], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “lakatan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

• lantaka, aklatan