abang-abang

• IPA^(key): /ʔabaŋˈʔabaŋ/ [ʔa.bɐŋˈʔa.bɐŋ]
• Rhymes: -abaŋ
• Syllabification: a‧bang-a‧bang

abang-abang (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜪᜥ᜴ᜠᜪᜥ᜴) (botany)

1. midnight horror (Oroxylum indicum, a tree where its leaves are used as a plaster in treating boils and other swollen body parts)

Reduplication of abang (“leaving behind”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔabaŋʔaˈbaŋ/ [ʔa.bɐŋ.ʔaˈbɐŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: a‧bang-a‧bang

abang-abáng (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜪᜥ᜴ᜠᜪᜥ᜴)

1. lucky word said at parting believed to ward off sickness or other misfortune

• When one takes leave of another, the former says mag-arabangan kita, to which the latter answers, abang-abang.

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 18

abáng-ábang

1. to help or assist

• IPA^(key): /abaŋ abaŋ/
• Rhymes: -abaŋ, -baŋ, -aŋ

abang-abang

1. plural of abang

• abong-abong
• abangabang — rash

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˌʔabaŋ ˈʔabaŋ/ [ˌʔaː.bɐŋ ˈʔaː.bɐŋ], /ʔaˌbaŋ ʔaˈbaŋ/ [ʔɐˌbaŋ ʔɐˈbaŋ]
• Rhymes: -abaŋ, -aŋ
• Syllabification: a‧bang-a‧bang

abang-abang or abáng-abáng (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊᜅ᜔ᜀᜊᜅ᜔)

1. West indian holly (Leea guineensis)

   Synonyms: kaliyantan, mali-mali

2. midnight horror (Oroxylum indicum)

   Synonyms: abong-abong, pingka-pingkahan, balilang-uwak

3. (dermatology, medicine) rash; skin eruptions

• “abang-abang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018