batikabesa
Tagalog
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish baticabeza (“click beetle; spring beetle; skipjack”, literally “beat-head”). By surface analysis, bati + kabesa.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /batikaˈbesa/ [bɐ.t̪ɪ.xɐˈbɛː.sɐ]
- Rhymes: -esa
- Syllabification: ba‧ti‧ka‧be‧sa
Noun
[edit]batikabesa (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜆᜒᜃᜊᜒᜐ) (dialectal, Cavite)
- giant click beetle (Oxynopterus mucronatus)
- Synonym: patango
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Categories:
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog compound terms
- Tagalog 5-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/esa
- Rhymes:Tagalog/esa/5 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog dialectal terms
- Cavite Tagalog
- tl:Elateroid beetles