sigay
Cebuano
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Cebuano) IPA(key): /ˈs̪iˌɡaɪ/
- Rhymes: -ɡaɪ
- Hyphenation: si‧gay
Noun
[edit]sigay
- cowry or cowrie shell
- the shell of the family Cypraeidae
Chavacano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Tagalog sigay (“cowry”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sigay
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sigay (“cowrie shell”). Compare Pangasinan sigay, Kapampangan sige, Bikol Central sigay, Cebuano sigay, Brunei Malay takoyong sigai, and Malay sigai.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈsiɡaj/ [ˈsiː.ɣaɪ̯]
- Rhymes: -iɡaj
- Syllabification: si‧gay
Noun
[edit]sigay (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜄᜌ᜔)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sigay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- Cebuano terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Cebuano/ɡaɪ
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano nouns
- Chavacano terms borrowed from Tagalog
- Chavacano terms derived from Tagalog
- Chavacano terms with IPA pronunciation
- Chavacano lemmas
- Chavacano nouns
- Tagalog terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Tagalog terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/iɡaj
- Rhymes:Tagalog/iɡaj/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script