siyam-siyam

Reduplication of siyam.

• Hyphenation: si‧yam‧si‧yam

siyam-siyam

1. a long time

Reduplication of siyam (“nine”). The sense “monsoon rain” from days of continuous rain, ranging around nine days, used to mark the beginning of the rainy season usually by the end of the month of May.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /siˌam siˈam/ [ˌʃam ˈʃam]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /siˌam siˈam/ [ˌsjam ˈsjam]
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: si‧yam-si‧yam

siyám-siyám (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜌᜋ᜔ᜐᜒᜌᜋ᜔)

1. wet spell; monsoon rain that usually lasts for more than a week

siyám-siyám (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜌᜋ᜔ᜐᜒᜌᜋ᜔)

1. nine at a time

• “siyam-siyam”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018