panhik

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• panhic — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• panik

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panahik (“climb”). Compare Maranao panik, Malay naik, and Javanese ꦥꦺꦤꦺꦏ꧀ (pénék). See also naik.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /panˈhik/ [pɐn̪ˈhik̚]
• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: pan‧hik

Noun

panhík (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈ᜔ᜑᜒᜃ᜔)

1. act of climbing a ladder
2. (business) income

Derived terms

• ipanhik
• magpanhik
• mamanhikan
• pagpanhik
• pamamanhikan
• pamanhik
• pamanhikan
• panhik-panaog
• panhikan
• pumanhik

See also

• dahik
• panaog

Further reading

• “panhik”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*panahik”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 561: “Subir) Panhic (pc) L. a la caſa”