tulong
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtuloŋ/ [ˈt̪u.l̪oŋ]
- Hyphenation: tu‧long
Verb
tulong (Badlit spelling ᜆᜓᜎᜓᜅ᜔)
- to skewer
Noun
tulong (Badlit spelling ᜆᜓᜎᜓᜅ᜔)
Ilocano
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuluŋ (“to help, to assist”). Cognate with Malay tolong.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtuloŋ/ [ˈtu.loŋ]
- Hyphenation: tu‧long
Noun
tulong
Interjection
tulong!
- help!
Derived terms
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuluŋ (“to help, to assist”). Compare Tausug tulung, Malay tolong, Coastal Kadazan tuhung, Tetum tulun, and Urak Lawoi' ตูลก (tulok).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈtuloŋ/ [ˈt̪uː.loŋ]
- Rhymes: -uloŋ
- Syllabification: tu‧long
Noun
tulong (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜎᜓᜅ᜔)
- help; aid; assistance
- act of helping
- Synonym: pagtulong
- person who runs to help (to someone in danger)
- Synonym: saklolo
Derived terms
- itulong
- katulong
- katulungin
- magkakatulong
- magkatulong
- magkatulong-tulong
- magkatulungan
- magpatulong
- magtulong
- magtulong-tulong
- magtulungan
- maitulong
- makatulong
- makipagtulungan
- matulungan
- matulungin
- nakatutulong
- pagtulong
- pagtulungan
- pagtutulungan
- pakikipagtulungan
- pantulong
- patulong
- patulungan
- patulungin
- tulong-tulong
- tulungan
- tumulong
- walanog-tulong
Tagalog phrasebook
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Interjection
tulong! (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜎᜓᜅ᜔)
Further reading
- “tulong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tuluŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI