Pekto
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Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of Perfecto, first attested in the 1940s.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpekto/ [ˈpɛk.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ekto
- Syllabification: Pek‧to
Proper noun
[edit]Pekto (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜃ᜔ᜆᜓ)
- a diminutive of the male given name Perfecto
- 1999, Philippine Journal of Education:
- Hindi pa gaanong nakalalayo si Pekto sa tindahan ni Mang Peles nang masundan niya ang isang babaeng may akay-akay na batang lalaki. Umiiyak ang bata. "Hindi natin mabibili ang laruang iyon, anak!" sabi ng babae. "Mahal iyon at ...
- Pekto is not yet that far from Mang Peles' store when he followed a lady together with a young boy. The boy is crying. "We can't buy that toy, son!" said by the lady. "It's expensive and ...
- year unknown, Bigkis Iii, Rex Bookstore, Inc. (→ISBN), page 7:
- Mangyari pang di si Pekto ang hahabol sa pangyayari. “Ano ang nangyari, Ka Punso?” tanong ng binata ni Ka Gabino. “Nagkahiritan ba kayong mabuti?” “ Nahuhuli ako. At sampung likaw na yata ay hindi ko mahalata ang kalabaw niya.
- 1941, Cecilio Lopez, A manual of the Philippine national language:
- ... 'none, no', mayrodn 'is or are there, has or have', lahdt 'all, everybody, etc' Distributive: tad 'one', bawa't isd 'each or every one', ibd 'another', ildn 'how many' , bdland 'any one, whosoever, etc' For Person. §118. 1. a. Ang naparito'y si Pekto.
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- Tagalog clippings
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Tagalog/ekto
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ekto/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog proper nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog given names
- Tagalog male given names
- Tagalog diminutives of male given names
- Tagalog terms with quotations