kahig

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ka‧hig

Verb

kahig

  1. to drag
  2. to rake

Noun

kahig

  1. a rake
  2. a harrow

Anagrams

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiʀ (“scratch the ground, as a chicken does”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈkahiɡ/ [ˈkaː.hɪɡ̚]
  • Rhymes: -ahiɡ
  • Syllabification: ka‧hig

Noun

kahig (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜑᜒᜄ᜔)

  1. scratching of a chicken searching for food or preparing for a cockfight
  2. act of cleaning garbage using a rake

Derived terms

Further reading

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