kalilya
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Tagalog
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Either of the following:
- Contraction of kandililya, from now obsolete Spanish candelilla (“bougie; catheter; flexible instrument for exploring and healing the urinary tract”, literally “little candle”), according to Panganiban (1973).
- Borrowed from Spanish canilla with sound shift from /n/ to /l/, from Latin cannella, diminutive of canna (“cane”), according to Cuadrado Muñiz (1972). Possible doublet of kanela.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kaˈlilja/ [kɐˈlil.jɐ]
- Rhymes: -ilja
- Syllabification: ka‧lil‧ya
Noun
[edit]kalilya (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒᜎ᜔ᜌ) (medicine)
- catheter
- Synonyms: katiter, kandililya
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kalilya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 229
- 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 107
Categories:
- Tagalog contractions
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Latin
- Tagalog doublets
- Tagalog 3-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ilja
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ilja/3 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- tl:Medicine
- tl:Medical equipment