alkayde
Tagalog
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish alcaide, from Arabic الْقَائِد (al-qāʔid, “leader”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔalˈkajde/ [ʔɐlˈkaɪ̯.d̪ɛ]
- Rhymes: -ajde
- Syllabification: al‧kay‧de
Noun
[edit]alkayde (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜃᜌ᜔ᜇᜒ)
- warden (chief administrative officer of a prison)
- Synonyms: bantay-bilangguan, karselero, bastonero, warden
Further reading
[edit]- English, Leo James (1987) Tagalog-English dictionary, Manila, Philippines: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 31
- Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 21
- Sagalongos, Felicidad Tomasa E. (1968) Diksiyunaryong Ingles-Pilipino, Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Mandaluyong: National Bookstore, →ISBN, page 486
Categories:
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Arabic
- Tagalog 3-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ajde
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ajde/3 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- tl:Occupations
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