panainga

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• panahinga — Rizal
• panaing̃a — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Etymology

From pan- +‎ tainga (“ear”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /panaˈʔiŋa/ [pɐ.n̪ɐˈʔiː.ŋɐ]
    • Rhymes: -iŋa
  • IPA^(key): /panaiˈŋa/ [pɐ.n̪ɐ.ɪˈŋa], (colloquial) /paˈneŋa/ [pɐˈn̪ɛː.ŋɐ] (modern reconstruction)
    • Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: pa‧na‧i‧nga

Noun

panainga or panaingá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈᜁᜅ or ᜉᜈᜌᜒᜅ) (obsolete)

1. earring

   Synonyms: hikaw, aretes

Usage notes

• This is now obsolete in most dialects except for Rizal where the variant panahinga is still in use today.

Further reading

• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 999.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier