dambuhala
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Tagalog
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Malay jambuara (“monster fish”), ultimately from a Minangkabau origin. Compare Kapampangan dambuala and Cebuano dambuala.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /dambuˈhalaʔ/ [d̪ɐm.bʊˈhaː.lɐʔ]
- Rhymes: -alaʔ
- Syllabification: dam‧bu‧ha‧la
Noun
[edit]dambuhalà (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜋ᜔ᜊᜓᜑᜎ)
- huge animal; monster
- giant
- 2003, “The Spageti Song”, in Lito Camo (lyrics), Lito Camo (music), Round 2, performed by Sexbomb Girls ft. Joey De Leon:
- Ayokong pumayat, ayokong tumaba, Ayoko ring matulad sa isang dambuhala
- I don't wanna be thin, I don't wanna be fat, I also don't wanna be like a giant
- (botany) medium-sized tree with oblong leaves with fascicled flowers and subellipsoid fruit (Diospyros pilosanthera)
- Synonyms: alintataw, balatinaw, bulung-ita, katilma, talang-gubat
- (zoology, originally obsolete) whale
- (zoology, obsolete) giant shark
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “dambuhala”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 592: “Vallena) Dambohala (pp) peſcado grande, otros dicen es tiburon grande.”
- Wolff, John U. (1976) “Malay borrowings in Tagalog”, in C.D. Cowan & O.W. Wolters, editors, Southeast Asian History and Historiography: Essays Presented to D. G. E. Hall[2], Ithaca: Cornell University Press, page 365
- Zorc, David Paul (1982) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 3, page 114
Further reading
[edit]- Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “jambuara”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilini, Yunani: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 442
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