porsiyento
Cebuano
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish por ciento.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: por‧si‧yen‧to
- IPA(key): /poɾsiˈjento/ [poɾ̪ˈs̪jin̪.t̪o]
Noun
porsiyento
Verb
porsiyento
- to pay interest
- to take a percentage commission
- to get or give a percentage of winnings of a machine owner in gambling
Derived terms
- pamorsiyento
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- porsyento — superseded
- pursyento — superseded
- pursiyento
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish por ciento.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /poɾsiˈento/ [poɾˈʃɛn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (no palatal assimilation) /poɾsiˈento/ [poɾˈsjɛn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: por‧si‧yen‧to
Noun
porsiyento (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜇ᜔ᜐᜒᜌᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
- percent
- Synonym: bahagdan
- isang daang porsiyento ― one hundred percent
- commission (fee charged)
- Synonym: komisyon
- (gambling) percentage of winnings taken by a machine owner
Derived terms
- mamorsiyento
- mamumursiyento
Related terms
- persentahe
- siyento
- siyento-por-siyento
- tanto porsiyento
Further reading
- “porsiyento”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018