batingting

Possibly from the following:

• From Proto-Philippine *batiŋtiŋ (“ringing sound, as of a bell”)
• From Spanish batintín (“Chinese gong”)
• From Chinese [Term?]

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /batiŋˈtiŋ/ [bɐ.t̪ɪn̪ˈt̪ɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -iŋ
• Syllabification: ba‧ting‧ting

batingtíng (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜒᜅ᜔ᜆᜒᜅ᜔)

1. (music) triangle
2. (slang) device used to tamper a taxi meter

• “batingting”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*batiŋtiŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI