paliki

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

paliki

1. big bat (animal)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish palique (“chitchat”). An alternate etymology posits it to be from pa- + Chinese origin *liki, according to Panganiban (1973).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /paˈlikiʔ/ [pɐˈliː.xɪʔ]
• Rhymes: -ikiʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧li‧ki

Noun

palikì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜒᜃᜒ)

1. making passes at a girl
2. courting

Related terms

• palikero

 

Further reading

• “paliki”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Lopez, Cecilio (1965) “The Spanish overlay in Tagalog”, in Lingua‎^[1], volume 14, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 467–504
• Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 758