tunggali

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• tongali, tonggali — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Etymology

Compare Kapampangan tunggali (“duel; one against one”), from tunggal (“single”). See also Ilocano tunggal (“each; every”), Maguindanao tunggal (“only child”), Tausug tunggal (“only; solely”), and Malay tunggal (“single”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tuŋˈɡaliʔ/ [t̪ʊŋˈɡaː.lɪʔ], /tuŋɡaˈliʔ/ [t̪ʊŋ.ɡɐˈliʔ]
• Rhymes: -aliʔ, -iʔ
• Syllabification: tung‧ga‧li

Noun

tunggalì or tunggalî (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜅ᜔ᜄᜎᜒ)

1. condition of being in conflict, discord, or disagreement with each other (usually of two parties)

   Synonyms: hidwaan, babag, away

2. rivalry
3. (obsolete) one on one (such as in dance or in a game)

Derived terms

• katunggali
• katunggaliin
• magkatunggali
• magtunggali
• magtunggalian
• makatunggali
• makipagtunggali
• makipagtunggalian
• tunggalian
• tunggaliin

 

See also

• tunggal

 

Further reading

• “tunggali”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• 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

Anagrams

• taguling, lunggati, tulingag