kumpil
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- compil, cumpel — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
- kumpel — obsolete
- Kumpil
Etymology
Clipping of earlier variant kumpilma, attested in Vocabulario de lengua tagala (1613), from Early Modern Spanish confirmar. Doublet of kumpirma and kumpilma. Also possibly from Spanish cumplir.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kumˈpil/ [kʊmˈpɪl]
- Rhymes: -il
- Syllabification: kum‧pil
Noun
kumpíl (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜋ᜔ᜉᜒᜎ᜔)
- (Catholicism) confirmation (sacrament)
- Synonyms: pagkukumpil, (obsolete) kumpilma
- (by extension) light slap on the face
Derived terms
- amang-kumpil
- inang-kumpil
- kumpilan
- kumpilin
- kumumpil
- magkumpil
- magpakumpil
- makumpilan
- pagkukumpil
- pakumpil
- pakumpilan
See also
Further reading
- “kumpil”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 181: “Confirmar) Compil [(pc)] C. el Obiſpo”