paliki

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

paliki

  1. big bat (animal)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish palique (“chitchat”). An alternate etymology posits it to be from pa- + Chinese origin *liki, according to Panganiban (1973).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /paˈlikiʔ/ [pɐˈliː.xɪʔ]
  • Rhymes: -ikiʔ
  • Syllabification: pa‧li‧ki

Noun

palikì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜒᜃᜒ)

  1. making passes at a girl
  2. courting

Further reading

  • “paliki”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Lopez, Cecilio (1965) “The Spanish overlay in Tagalog”, in Lingua‎[1], volume 14, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 467–504
  • Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 758
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