Kalinga
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Philippines) IPA(key): /kɐ.lɪˈŋa/ (place), /kɐ.lɪŋˈɡa/ (people, language)
Audio (Philippines): (file)
Proper noun
Kalinga
- A province of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tabuk. the province was created from the partinioning of Kalinga-Apayao
- (historical) A former Spanish commandancy in the Philippines.
- (historical) A former subprovince of the former province of Lepanto-Bontoc in northern Philippines, created from the commandancy.
- A dialect continuum of Kalinga Province in the Philippines, spoken by the Kalinga people.
Noun
Kalinga pl (plural only)
- An indigenous ethnic group whose ancestral domain is in the Cordillera Mountain Range of the northern Philippines.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Sanskrit कलिङ्ग (kaliṅga).
Proper noun
Kalinga
- A historical region in modern Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, in eastern India.
- A mythological kingdom in eastern South Asia, described in the Mahabharata.
Anagrams
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Ka‧li‧nga
- IPA(key): /kaliˈŋa/ [kɐ.l̪ɪˈŋa]
Proper noun
Kalinga
- Kalinga (a province of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines; capital and largest city: Tabuk)
- (historical) a former Spanish commandancy
- (historical) the subprovince of Kalinga
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog)
- IPA(key): /kaˈliŋɡa/ [kɐˈliŋ.ɡɐ] (prescribed)
- Rhymes: -iŋɡa
- Syllabification: Ka‧lin‧ga
- IPA(key): /kaliˈŋa/ [kɐ.lɪˈŋa]
- Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: Ka‧li‧nga
- Homophone: kalinga
- IPA(key): /kaˈliŋɡa/ [kɐˈliŋ.ɡɐ] (prescribed)
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Kalinga or Kalingá (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒᜅ᜔ᜄ or ᜃᜎᜒᜅ)
- Kalinga (a province of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines; capital and largest city: Tabuk)
- Kalinga (ethnic group)
- (historical) the subprovince of Kalinga, once part of Kalinga-Apayao in the Cordillera Administrative Region
Further reading
- “Kalinga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018