tunggali
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- tongali, tonggali — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
Etymology
Compare Kapampangan tunggali (“duel; one against one”), from tunggal (“single”). See also Ilocano tunggal (“each; every”), Maguindanao tunggal (“only child”), Tausug tunggal (“only; solely”), and Malay tunggal (“single”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /tuŋˈɡaliʔ/ [t̪ʊŋˈɡaː.lɪʔ], /tuŋɡaˈliʔ/ [t̪ʊŋ.ɡɐˈlɪʔ]
- Rhymes: -aliʔ, -iʔ
- Syllabification: tung‧ga‧li
Noun
tunggalì or tunggalî (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜅ᜔ᜄᜎᜒ)
- condition of being in conflict, discord, or disagreement with each other (usually of two parties)
- rivalry
- (obsolete) one on one (such as in dance or in a game)
Derived terms
- katunggali
- katunggaliin
- magkatunggali
- magtunggali
- magtunggalian
- makatunggali
- makipagtunggali
- makipagtunggalian
- tunggalian
- tunggaliin
See also
Further reading
- “tunggali”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- 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