kulintang

English

Etymology

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Noun

kulintang (uncountable)

1. An ancient form of instrumental music of Southeast Asia, played on a row of small, horizontally-laid melodic gongs accompanied by larger suspended gongs and drums.
   • 2007 April 27, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “Electric Kulintang,” her percussive collaboration with Mr. Rodriguez, adds a contemporary sheen to the chiming kulintang music of the Philippines.

Anagrams

• untalking

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• kulintangan
• kulintan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kulintaŋ. Compare Tboli klintang, Yakan kwintangan, Indonesian kolintang, Indonesian kelenteng, Javanese ꦏ꧀ꦭꦺꦤ꧀ꦛꦺꦁ (klénthéng).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kulinˈtaŋ/ [kʊ.lɪn̪ˈt̪aŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: ku‧lin‧tang

Noun

kulintáng (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜎᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜅ᜔)

1. (music) kulintang

See also

• agong

Further reading

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