bilyon

Cebuano

Cebuano numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000  ←  1,000,000 (106) 1,000,000,000 (109) 1012  →  1015  → 
    Cardinal: usá ka wakát, wakát
    Spanish cardinal: bilyón

Etymology

From Spanish billón.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bil‧yon

Numeral

bilyon

  1. billion; thousand million

Tagalog

Tagalog numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000,000 (106)  ←  100,000,000 (108) 1,000,000,000 (109) 1012  → 
    Cardinal: sanlibong-angaw, sanggatos
    Spanish cardinal: bilyon
    Ordinal: ikasanlibong-angaw, pansanlibong-angaw, ikagatos, panggatos, ikasanggatos
    Ordinal abbreviation: ika-1000000000, pang-1000000000
    Collective: gatos
Tagalog Wikipedia article on 1,000,000,000 (109)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish billón, with a semantic shift influenced by English billion.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /bilˈjon/ [bɪlˈjon̪]
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Syllabification: bil‧yon

Numeral

bilyón (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ᜔ᜌᜓᜈ᜔)

  1. (short scale) billion (thousand million)
    Synonyms: gatos, sanlibong-angaw
  2. (long scale, obsolete) billion (million million)
    Synonym: sang-angaw-na-angaw

Noun

bilyón (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ᜔ᜌᜓᜈ᜔)

  1. (Batangas, dated) twenty-cent coin

Further reading

  • “bilyon”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
  • “bilyon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Calderón, Sofronio G. (1915) Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog (con partes de la oracion y pronunciacion figurada), Manila: Imprenta de J. Martínez, page 79.
  • 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 81
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