silab

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: si‧lab

Verb

silab

1. to set alight; to cause to begin to burn; to set ablaze

Maranao

Noun

silab

1. blade

   Synonym: garangan

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *sil(ə)qáb (“to set on fire, to burn”). Compare Cebuano silab and Kapampangan silab.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /siˈlab/ [sɪˈlab̚]
• Rhymes: -ab
• Syllabification: si‧lab

Noun

siláb (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜊ᜔)

1. blaze; conflagration; big fire

   Synonym: sunog

2. bonfire

   Synonym: siga

3. setting fire; burning (of garbage, weeds, grass, etc.)

Derived terms

• magsilab
• masilab
• pagsisilab
• silaban

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• bilas, labis

Volapük

Noun

silab (nominative plural silabs)

1. syllable

Declension

Declension of silab

	singular	plural
nominative	silab	silabs
genitive	silaba	silabas
dative	silabe	silabes
accusative	silabi	silabis
vocative 1	o silab!	o silabs!
predicative 2	silabu	silabus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only