tanong
See also: Tañong
Tagalog
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Malay tenung (“fortune-telling”). Compare Javanese ꦠꦼꦤꦸꦁ (tenung, “black magic”) and Sundanese ᮒᮨᮔᮥᮔ᮪ᮌ᮪ (tenung, “clairvoyance”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /taˈnoŋ/ [tɐˈnoŋ]
- Rhymes: -oŋ
- Syllabification: ta‧nong
Noun
edittanóng (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜈᜓᜅ᜔)
- question (something being asked about)
- Synonym: katanungan
- question; problem (in a test or examination)
- act of asking (a question)
- Synonym: pagtatanong
- act of inquiring (about something)
- Synonyms: usisa, pag-uusisa
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “tanong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “tell: divine, find by divination, tell fortunes”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI