salatan

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧la‧tan

Noun

salatan

1. the south wind

Esperanto

Adjective

salatan

1. accusative singular present passive participle of sali

Maranao

Noun

salatan

1. wind
2. breeze

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *salatan (“south, south wind”). Compare Cebuano salatan, Maranao salatan, Waray-Waray salatan, Malay selatan, Indonesian selatan.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈlatan/ [sɐˈlaː.t̪ɐn̪]
• Rhymes: -atan
• Syllabification: sa‧la‧tan

Noun

salatan (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎᜆᜈ᜔)

1. southwest wind

   Synonym: habagat

   Antonym: amihan

2. (uncommon) southwest

   Synonym: timog-kanluran

Coordinate terms

hilagang kanluran norweste	hilaga norte	hilagang silangan nordeste
oksidente kanluran oeste		oryente silangan este
salatan timog-kanluran	sur timog	timog-silangan

Further reading

• “salatan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*salatan”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Anagrams

• salanta

Waray-Waray

Noun

salatan

1. south