talikod

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ta‧li‧kod

Noun

talikod

  1. shatterstone (Phyllanthus niruri)

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ta-likud. Compare Tausug taykud. By surface analysis, *ta- +‎ likod (“back”). See also tagilid.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /taˈlikod/ [t̪ɐˈliː.xod̪̚]
      • Rhymes: -ikod
    • IPA(key): /taliˈkod/ [t̪ɐ.lɪˈxod̪̚]
      • Rhymes: -od
  • Syllabification: ta‧li‧kod

Noun

talikod or talikód (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜒᜃᜓᜇ᜔)

  1. act of turning one's back to
    Synonym: pagtalikod
  2. position of one's body with the back turned (to someone or something)
  3. (figurative) act of renunciating, disowning, or repudiating; going back on something or someone
    Synonyms: takwil, pagtatakwil, tatwa, pagtatwa, pagtalikod, waksi

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “talikod”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*likud”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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