hibla

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Early Modern Spanish hebra (“fiber”) with shift of stress, from Latin fibra. Words with a closed penultimate syllable tend to have ultimate stress on earlier stages of the language.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /hibˈla/ [hɪbˈla]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: hib‧la

Noun

hiblá (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜊ᜔ᜎ)

1. fiber

   Synonyms: himaymay, hilatsa, aguheta

2. string, thread

   Synonym: sinulid

3. strand, filament

Derived terms

• hiblahan
• maghibla

 

Further reading

• “hibla”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

• hilab