kalangbahala
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- calangbahala, calang bahala — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
- kalang-bahala
Etymology
From kalang (“payment for someone else's wrongdoings”) + bahala (“taking care of; management”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˌkalaŋbaˈhalaʔ/ [ˌkaː.lɐm.bɐˈhaː.lɐʔ]
- Rhymes: -alaʔ
- Syllabification: ka‧lang‧ba‧ha‧la
Noun
kálangbahalà (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜅ᜔ᜊᜑᜎ) (obsolete)
Derived terms
- kalangbahalaan
- kalangbahalain
- magkalangbahala
Further reading
- “kalangbahala”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.[1] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot