bilyon

Cebuano

Cebuano numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000	←  1,000,000 (106)	1,000,000,000 (109)	1012  →	1015  →
Cardinal: usá ka wakát, wakát     Spanish cardinal: bilyón

Etymology

From Spanish billón.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bil‧yon

Numeral

bilyon

1. billion; thousand million

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bilyon.

Tagalog

Tagalog numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000,000 (106)	←  100,000,000 (108)	1,000,000,000 (109)	1012  →
Cardinal: sanlibong-angaw, sanggatos     Spanish cardinal: bilyon     Ordinal: ikasanlibong-angaw, pansanlibong-angaw, ikagatos, panggatos, ikasanggatos     Ordinal abbreviation: ika-1000000000, pang-1000000000     Collective: gatos
Tagalog Wikipedia article on 1,000,000,000 (109)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish billón, with a semantic shift influenced by English billion.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /bilˈjon/ [bɪlˈjon̪]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: bil‧yon

Numeral

bilyón (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ᜔ᜌᜓᜈ᜔)

1. (short scale) billion (thousand million)

   Synonyms: gatos, sanlibong-angaw

2. (obsolete, long scale) billion (million million)

   Synonym: sang-angaw-na-angaw

Related terms

• bilyonaryo

Noun

bilyón (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ᜔ᜌᜓᜈ᜔)

1. (Batangas, dated) twenty-cent coin

Further reading

• “bilyon”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “bilyon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Calderón, Sofronio G. (1915) Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog (con partes de la oracion y pronunciacion figurada), Manila: Imprenta de J. Martínez, page 79.
• 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 81