palo-palo

Cebuano

Alternative forms

Etymology

Reduplication of palo.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pa‧lo‧pa‧lo

Noun

palo-palo

  1. a batlet; a short bat for beating clothes when washing them; a washing paddle
  2. arrowfin goby; any member of the genus Oxyurichthys

Verb

palo-palo

  1. to beat clothes when washing

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˌpaloʔ ˈpaloʔ/ [ˌpaː.loʔ ˈpaː.loʔ]
    • IPA(key): (with glottal stop elision) /ˌpalo(ʔ) ˈpaloʔ/ [ˌpaː.loː ˈpaː.loʔ]
  • Rhymes: -aloʔ
  • Syllabification: pa‧lo-pa‧lo

Noun

palò-palò (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜓᜉᜎᜓ)

  1. alternative form of palupalo