lelong

Borrowed from Portuguese leilão, borrowed from Arabic إِعْلَام (ʔiʕlām), from أَعْلَمَ (ʔaʕlama).

lelong (Jawi spelling ليلوڠ, plural lelong-lelong)

1. auction (public sales event)
2. (Pontianak) thrift shop

• Indonesian: lelang
• → Min Nan: 黎壟 / 黎垄 (lê-lóng)

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

Possibly a colloquial clipping of Spanish abuelo (“grandfather”) +‎ -ng. See also lelang, ninong, ninang, manong, manang, etc.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈleloŋ/ [ˈlɛː.loŋ]
• Rhymes: -eloŋ
• Syllabification: le‧long

lelong (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜎᜓᜅ᜔)

1. grandfather

   Synonyms: lolo, ingkong, mamay, apo, (dialectal) amama, (archaic) abwelo, (archaic) agwelo

   • 1907, Sofronion G. Calderon, Dating Pilipinas:

     Ang pang̃alan ng pangulo sa bawat balangay ay Dato na ang kahulugan sa wikang Malaya (ani Dr. de Tavera ay nuno ó lelong ano pa ng̃a't dito'y ating mapagninilay na ang ayos sa pámunuan ay isang pamumuno sa gulang̃an.

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• lelong-tanda

• “lelong”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 36
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 5

• Loleng