abaka

abaka (plural abakas)

1. Alternative spelling of abaca.

• Akaba, Kaaba

From Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “abaca”).

• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧ka
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔabaka/ [ˈʔa.bɐ.kɐ]

ábaka

1. Cebu hemp (Musa textilis); a species of banana tree native to the Philippines
2. the fiber obtained from this plant

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 131

From Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “abaca”).

abaka

1. Manila hemp; abaca

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 131

Compare Tagalog abaka.

• IPA^(key): /ʔabaˈka/ [ʔa.baˈka]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧ka

abaká (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜪᜣ) (botany)

1. abaca; Manila hemp

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 17

From Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “abaca”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔabaˈka/ [ʔa.baˈka]

abaká

1. Manila hemp, abaca

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 131

From Bikol Central abaka.

• IPA^(key): /ʔabaˈka/

abaka

1. Manila hemp, abaca

Cognate with Yami avaka.

abaka

1. Manila hemp; abaca

• IPA^(key): /ʔabaˈka/ [ʔɐ.bɐˈka]
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧ka

abaká

1. abaca; Manila hemp

Cognate with Malay abaka.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈbaka/ [aˈba.ka]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧ka

abaka (plural abaka-abaka)

1. abaca plant

• “abaka” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “abaca”).

abaka

1. abaca

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 131

abaka m

1. genitive singular of abaks

From either Philippine Spanish abacá or Tagalog abaka or directly from Arabic الْأَبَقَ (al-ʔabaqa, “the abaca”), the accusative definite inflection of Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “abaca”).

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /aˈbakə/ [aˈba.kə]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

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  • Rhymes: -akə
• (Baku) IPA^(key): /aˈbaka/ [aˈba.ka]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

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  • Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧ka

abaka (Jawi spelling اباک, plural abaka-abaka)

1. abaca (plant)

   Synonyms: pisang benang, pisang manila, pisang tali

• “abaka” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed from Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq).

• IPA^(key): /aˈba.ka/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧ka

abaka f

1. abaca, Manila hemp (fibre of the abaca)

   Synonym: manila

• abaka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• abaka in PWN's encyclopedia

• IPA^(key): [ˈabaka]

abaka f (genitive singular abaky, declension pattern of žena)

1. Manila hemp

• “abaka”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Possibly from the following:

• According to Potet (2013), borrowed from Arabic الْأَبَقَ (al-ʔabaqa, “the abaca”), the accusative definite inflection of Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “abaca”), from Classical Syriac ܐܳܦܰܩܬܳܐ (ʾāpaqtā), ܐܰܦܩܰܥܬܳܐ (ʾap̄qaʿtā, “de-seeded cotton”). He added that Muslim marine merchants imposed their term on Philippine suppliers so that the native terms died out in the Philippines.
• According to Blust, Robert & Trussel (2023), inherited from Proto-Philippine *abaká (“Manila hemp: Musa textilis”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔabaˈka/ [ʔɐ.bɐˈxa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧ka

abaká (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊᜃ)

1. Manila hemp; abaca

   Synonyms: ibilaw, (obsolete) labayo

   Si Pedro ay gumamit ng abaka sa pagtali ng kahoy.

   Pedro used abaca to tie the wood together.

• →? Malay: abaka
• → Spanish: abacá
  • → Aragonese: abacá
  • → Catalan: abacà
  • → Chamorro: åbaka
  • → English: abaca
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: abaca
  • → French: abaca
  • → Galician: abacá
  • → Italian: abacà
  • →? Malay: abaka
  • → Portuguese: abacá

• “abaka”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “abaka”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 131
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*abaká”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• Kaaba