pantaw
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pan‧taw
Noun
pantaw
- a platform
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- pantao — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
Etymology
From Chinese, according to the Vocabulario de la lengua tagala by Fr. Noceda and Sanlucar, possibly from Hokkien 放數 / 放数 (pàng-siàu, “to buy or sell on credit”). See also Hokkien 便 (pân, “advantageous”) and Hokkien 投 (tâu, “to send”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /panˈtaw/ [pɐn̪ˈt̪aʊ̯]
- Rhymes: -aw
- Syllabification: pan‧taw
Adjective
pantáw (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈ᜔ᜆᜏ᜔)
Derived terms
- magpantaw
- mamantaw
- pantawin
- pumantaw
Noun
pantáw (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈ᜔ᜆᜏ᜔)
Further reading
- “pantaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1007.
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- 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 42