kulang

kulang (plural kulangs)

1. Alternative form of koulan (“kind of onager”).

Borrowed from Malay kurang.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkulaŋ/ [ˈku.l̪aŋ]
• Hyphenation: ku‧lang

kúlang (plural kurulang, Basahan spelling ᜃᜓᜎᜅ᜔)

1. lacking; incomplete

   Synonyms: tikapo, limitado

Compare Malay kurang, Ilocano kurang, Bikol Central kulang, Cebuano kuwang, and Maranao korang.

• IPA^(key): /kʊˈlaŋ/ [kʊˈläŋ]
• Hyphenation: ku‧lang

kulang

1. lacking; incomplete; insufficient

   Synonyms: esapat, elubus, mikikulang, gipit

2. missing; less; absent

   Synonyms: bating, ditak, ala, migpaliban

3. (by extension) nothing; none; don't have

   Synonyms: ala, emiki-, emika-

   Katapangang kulang ka?

   Don't you have any courage?

   (literally, “Do you lack courage?”)

• IPA^(key): /ku.ˈlaŋ/, [ku.ˈlaŋ]

kulang

1. Chinese mustard

Compare Malay kurang.

kulang

1. lacking; incomplete

Borrowed from Malay kurang. Compare Ilocano kurang, Kapampangan kulang, Bikol Central kulang, Cebuano kuwang, and Maranao korang.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkulaŋ/ [ˈkuː.lɐŋ]
• Rhymes: -ulaŋ
• Syllabification: ku‧lang

kulang (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜎᜅ᜔)

1. lacking; incomplete; insufficient

   Synonyms: kapos, di-sapat, may-kulang, gipit, sahol

kulang (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜎᜅ᜔)

1. condition of being lacking, incomplete, or insufficient

   Synonyms: pagkukulang, kakulangan, pagkakapos, kakapusan

2. amount lacking

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