tanong

See also: Tañong

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay tenung (“fortune-telling”). Compare Javanese ꦠꦼꦤꦸꦁ (tenung, “black magic”) and Sundanese tenung (“clairvoyance”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈnoŋ/ [t̪ɐˈn̪oŋ]
• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Syllabification: ta‧nong

Noun

tanóng (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜈᜓᜅ᜔)

1. question (something being asked about)

   Synonym: katanungan

2. question; problem (in a test or examination)
3. act of asking (a question)

   Synonym: pagtatanong

4. act of inquiring (about something)

   Synonyms: usisa, pag-uusisa

Derived terms

• ipatanong
• itanong
• katanungan
• magpatanong
• magsulit-tanong
• magtanong
• magtanong-tanong
• mapagtanong
• matanong
• muling sulit-tanong
• muling ulat-tanong
• pagtatanong
• pagtatanungin
• palatanong
• palatanungan
• pananong
• patanong
• sulit-tanong
• suliting-tanong
• tagapagtanong
• tagatanong
• tandang pananong
• tanungan
• tanungin
• tumanong
• ulat-tanong

Further reading

• “tanong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• 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 494: “Preguntar) Tanong (pc) qualquier coſa”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “tell: divine, find by divination, tell fortunes”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI