madlakasan
Appearance
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a blend of madla (“people; public; crowd”) + lakas (“power”) + -an. Calque of English democracy, demo- (“people”) and -cracy (“power”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /madlaˈkasan/ [mɐd̪.l̪ɐˈxaː.sɐn̪]
- Rhymes: -asan
- Syllabification: mad‧la‧ka‧san
Noun
[edit]madlakasan (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇ᜔ᜎᜃᜐᜈ᜔)
- (neologism) democracy
- Synonyms: demokrasya, demokratahan
Categories:
- Tagalog blends
- Tagalog terms suffixed with -an
- Tagalog terms calqued from English
- Tagalog terms derived from English
- Tagalog 4-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/asan
- Rhymes:Tagalog/asan/4 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog neologisms
- tl:Forms of government
- tl:Democracy
- tl:Philosophy
- tl:Politics