alamang

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧la‧mang

Noun

alamang

  1. a preparation of fermented shrimp paste

Hanunoo

Etymology

From Proto-Northern Philippine *ajamaŋ (tiny shrimp).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔalaˈmaŋ/ [ʔa.lɐˈmɐŋ]
  • Rhymes: -aŋ
  • Syllabification: a‧la‧mang

Noun

alamáng (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜮᜫᜥ᜴) (zoology)

  1. small, edible shrimp, possibly Atyopsis moluccensis

Further reading

  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 24

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Northern Philippine *ajamaŋ (tiny shrimp). Compare Ilocano aramang and Pangasinan agamang.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔalaˈmaŋ/ [ʔɐ.lɐˈmaŋ]
  • Rhymes: -aŋ
  • Syllabification: a‧la‧mang

Noun

alamáng (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜋᜅ᜔)

  1. any of a number of species of small shrimp in the genus Acetes (used in bagoong production)
    Synonym: (Marinduque) balaw
  2. (figurative) insignificant person or thing; small fry

Derived terms

Further reading

  • alamang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Zorc, David Paul (1979–1983) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 1, page 9

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