ipil-ipil

See also: ipilipil

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *ipil ipil (“a leguminous shrub: Leucaena glauca”). By surface analysis, from reduplication of ipil.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˌʔipil ˈʔipil/ [ˌʔiː.pɪl ˈʔiː.pɪl]
  • Rhymes: -ipil
  • Syllabification: i‧pil-i‧pil

Noun

ipil-ipil (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜉᜒᜎ᜔ᜁᜉᜒᜎ᜔)

  1. white popinac (Leucaena leucocephala)
    Synonym: santaelena

Further reading

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