palo-palo

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• palopalo

Etymology

Reduplication of palo.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pa‧lo‧pa‧lo

Noun

palo-palo

1. a batlet; a short bat for beating clothes when washing them; a washing paddle
2. arrowfin goby; any member of the genus Oxyurichthys

Verb

palo-palo

1. to beat clothes when washing

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /paloˈpaloʔ/ [pɐ.loˈpaː.loʔ]
• Rhymes: -aloʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧lo-pa‧lo

Noun

palò-palò (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜓᜉᜎᜓ)

1. Alternative form of palopalo

Further reading

• “palo-palo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018