balarila

Tagalog

Etymology

From a blend of bala (“speak; warn; order”) +‎ dila (“tongue”), with the first element possibly also from babala, or a blend of badya (“speak; notify”) +‎ dila (“tongue”), coined by the Samahan ng mga Mananagalog (Association of Tagalog Writers) around 1905–1906. An alternative etymology posits it to be a blend of balana (“anyone; people”) +‎ dila (“tongue”), literally “the people's tongue” but Lope K. Santos disagrees as balana was also a coinage even later than balarila.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /balaˈɾilaʔ/ [bɐ.lɐˈɾiː.lɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -ilaʔ
• Syllabification: ba‧la‧ri‧la

Noun

balarilà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜇᜒᜎ) (grammar)

1. grammar

   Synonyms: gramatika, salitikan, katatasan

Derived terms

• anyong pambalarila
• kabalarilaan
• kagamitang balarila
• kahulugang pambalarila
• kailanang pambalarila
• kasariang pambalarila
• kaugnayang pambalarila
• kaukulang pambalarila
• kayariang pambalarila
• mambabalarila
• pambalarila
• panunurang pambalarila
• simunong pambalarila

Further reading

• “balarila”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Santos, Lope K (1939) Balarila ng Wikang Pambansa‎^[1] (in Tagalog), →ISBN, archived from the original on 6 August 2022, page XXIX
• Batnag, Aurora E. (1980) Mga Sanaysay sa alaala ni Lope K. Santos sa kanyang ika-100 taon‎^[2] (in Tagalog), Surian ng Wikang Pambansa
• Paglinawan, Mamerto (1910) Balarilang Tagalog‎^[3], Limbagang Magiting ni Honorio Lopez