Philippines

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See Name of the Philippines in Wikipedia for a complete etymology.

Borrowed from French Philippines, originally from Spanish Filipinas, which was from Felipe (the name of a king of Spain). By surface analysis, Philip +‎ -ine +‎ -s.

• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lip.pins/, /ˈfi.li.pins/
  • (Philippines, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.lip.pins/, /ˈpi.li.pins/
• (US, UK) enPR: fĭlʹĭ-pēnz, IPA^(key): /ˈfɪl.ɪ.pinz/, /ˈfɪl.ə.pinz/

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• Hyphenation: Phi‧lip‧pines
• Hyphenation: Phi‧li‧ppines
• Hyphenation: Phil‧i‧ppines

the Philippines

1. An archipelago of Southeast Asia.
3. A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Philippines. Capital: Manila.
   • 2025 April 22, Joe Minihane, “24 of the world’s most unusual landscapes”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The rolling Chocolate Hills of Bohol in the Philippines could easily be mistaken for a child’s landscape drawing.

   • 2025 May 8, Angela Giuffrida and Harriet Sherwood, “White smoke from Sistine Chapel chimney signals election of new pope”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Among the frontrunners before the conclave began were Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state; Luis Antonio Tagle, a reformer from the Philippines; Péter Erdő, a traditionalist from Hungary; Robert Sarah, a cardinal from Guinea who criticised Francis’s papacy; and the moderate US cardinal Robert Prevost.

• Not to be confused with Philippians.
• (country): Normally used in the singular since it is the name of a country.

• Filippines
• Pilipinas
• Pinas

• Countries of the world

Philippe +‎ -ine +‎ -s, a calque of Spanish Filipinas, using the pet form of Filipe (“Philip”) (French: Philippe), named after the King of Spain, Philip II.

• IPA^(key): /fi.li.pin/

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Philippines f pl (plural only)

1. Philippines (a country in Southeast Asia)

• philippin
• Philippin, Philippine, Philippins, Philippines

• → Arabic: الْفِلِبِّين (al-filibbīn)
• → English: Philippines
• → Persian: فیلیپین (filipin)
• → Vietnamese: Phi-líp-pin

Philippines f

1. plural of Philippine