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List of initialisms, acronyms ("a word made from parts of the full name's words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations used by the government and the military of the Philippines.
(Original meaning: to make a light tinkling sound) Load [10] — prepaid phone credits (Original meaning: a burden) Marketing [44] — Shopping for daily needs. (Original meaning: buying and/or selling in a market) Motel [60] — a hotel usually for premarital or extramarital sex. (Original meaning: motorist’s hotel) [60]
The linguist Ekaterina Baklanova distinguishes at least two types of Spanish-Tagalog compound terms: hybrid loanwords [46] or mixed-borrowings [47] are partially translated Spanish terms which are adopted into Tagalog, e.g. karnerong-dagat (derived from the Spanish term carnero marino, meaning "seal") and anemonang-dagat (derived from the ...
Tagalog maginoo (nobility) wearing baro in the Boxer Codex (c.1590). Baro't saya evolved from two pieces of clothing worn by both men and women in the pre-colonial period of the Philippines: the baro (also barú or bayú in other Philippine languages), a simple collar-less shirt or jacket with close-fitting long sleeves; [5] and the tapis (also called patadyong in the Visayas and Sulu ...
The veracity of "quasi-historical" (meaning not physically original) genealogical documents also remains subject to scholarly peer review. [12] She served as Paramount ruler of Manila after the death of her husband. Her period of reign covered the youth of Rajah Matanda, including the time Ache spent as commander of the Bruneian navy. [12] Lela ...
In the Philippine languages, a system of titles and honorifics was used extensively during the pre-colonial era, mostly by the Tagalogs and Visayans.These were borrowed from the Malay system of honorifics obtained from the Moro peoples of Mindanao, which in turn was based on the Indianized Sanskrit honorifics system [1] and the Chinese's used in areas like Ma-i and Pangasinan.
This is the list of special economic zones (SEZ) in the Philippines created and mandated by the Congress of the Philippines through legislative enactments both by the House of Representatives and Philippine Senate.
Dionela joined the UMG Philippines roster under its Republic Records local imprint in 2022. He released his first singles "153" and "Musika" (Music). [3]In 2024, he and other Republic artists were transferred to the EMI imprint within UMG.