kahig

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ka‧hig

Verb

kahig

1. to drag
2. to rake

Noun

kahig

1. a rake
2. a harrow

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kahig.

Anagrams

• hagki

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiʀ (“scratch the ground, as a chicken does”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkahiɡ/ [ˈkaː.hɪɡ̚]
• Rhymes: -ahiɡ
• Syllabification: ka‧hig

Noun

kahig (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜑᜒᜄ᜔)

1. scratching of a chicken searching for food or preparing for a cockfight
2. act of cleaning garbage using a rake

Derived terms

• ikahig
• isang kahig, isang tuka
• kahigin
• kinahig ng manok
• kumahig
• magkahgig
• pagkahig

 

Further reading

• “kahig”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kahiR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI