halilaya

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay hari raya (“holiday; festival; Eid”). In Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, it was defined as “a particular fast”, but Potet (2013) thinks that it refers not to a fast, but Eid al-Fitr which ends the Ramadan fast. Compare Tausug Haylaya. Doublet of Hariraya Puasa.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /haliˈlaja/ [hɐ.lɪˈlaː.jɐ]
  • Rhymes: -aja
  • Syllabification: ha‧li‧la‧ya

Noun

halilaya (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜎᜒᜎᜌ) (Islam, obsolete)

  1. Eid al-Fitr
    Synonym: Hariraya Puasa

References

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