almete

from French allumette

[àl.mé.tè]

almete

1. match (for starting fires)

• (match (for starting fires)): mankẽs-bila
• (match (for starting fires)): mankẽsga

• alimet

almete m (plural almetes)

1. (armor) helmet

• “almete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish almete, from Old French healmet, ultimately from Germanic origin. Doublet of helmet.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔalˈmete/ [ʔɐlˈmɛː.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: al‧me‧te

almete (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜋᜒᜆᜒ) (rare)

1. helmet

   Synonym: helmet

• “almete”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 25