kuyang
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Dupaningan Agta
[edit]Noun
[edit]kuyang
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From kuya -ng. Compare Kapampangan koyang.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈkujaŋ/ [ˈkuː.jɐŋ]
- Rhymes: -ujaŋ
- Syllabification: ku‧yang
Noun
[edit]kuyang (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜌᜅ᜔) (chiefly Nueva Ecija)
- elder brother; big brother
- Synonym: kuya
- (informal) term of address for a male senior (in school, work, etc.)
- Synonym: kuya
- (informal) term of address for any young male: mister; bro
- Synonym: kuya
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 33
Categories:
- Dupaningan Agta lemmas
- Dupaningan Agta nouns
- Tagalog terms suffixed with -ng
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ujaŋ
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ujaŋ/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Nueva Ecija Tagalog
- Tagalog informal terms
- tl:Family