layang-layang

Inherited from Malay layang-layang. Equivalent to reduplication of layang.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˌlajaŋ ˈlajaŋ/ [ˌla.jaŋ ˈla.jaŋ]
• Rhymes: -ajaŋ
• Syllabification: la‧yang-la‧yang

layang-layang (plural layang-layang)

1. kite (a flying lightweight toy that is flat and shaped like a triangle, played in wind)

   Synonym: layangan

2. swallow, martin (any bird in the family Hirundinidae)

   Synonym: walet

3. (geometry) a quadrilateral resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 1)

• “layang-layang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Malay layang-layang.^[1]

layang-layang (plurale tantum)

1. kite (lightweight toy carried on the wind)^[2]

• Ladislav Prištic (2010) Kristang - Crioulo de Base Portuguesa (in Kristang), Masaryk University

Reduplication of layang.

• IPA^(key): /lajaŋ.lajaŋ/

layang-layang (Jawi spelling لايڠ٢)

1. kite

• Indonesian: layang-layang
• → Kristang: layang-layang

• “layang-layang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• layanglayang

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˌlajaŋ ˈlajaŋ/ [ˌlaː.jɐn̪ ˈlaː.jɐŋ]
• Rhymes: -ajaŋ
• Syllabification: la‧yang-la‧yang

layang-layang (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜌᜅ᜔ᜎᜌᜅ᜔)

1. swiftlet, a small bird that builds its nest on high rocks (genus Collocalia)

   Synonym: balinsasayaw

2. Germain's swiftlet (Aerodramus germani)
3. Pacific swallow, especially the Philippine subspecies (Hirundo tahitica)

   Synonym: layang-layangan

• golondrina
• layangan

• “layang-layang”, 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