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Sibat. Sibat is the Filipino word for spear, used as a weapon or tool by natives of the Philippines. The term is used in Tagalog and Kinaray-a. It also called bangkaw, sumbling or palupad in the islands of Visayas and Mindanao; and budjak (also spelled bodjak or budiak) among Muslim Filipinos in western Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago.
Tagalog language
Indigenous religious beliefs of the Tagalog people
Vocabulario de la lengua tagala (transl. Vocabulary of the Tagalog language) was the first dictionary of the Tagalog language in the Philippines, It was written by the Franciscan friar Pedro de San Buena Ventura and published in Pila, Laguna, in 1613. [1] Juan de Plasencia had written a vocabulario earlier but it was not printed. [2]
Unlike the Ambahan whose length is indefinite, the Tanaga is a seven-syllable quatrain. Poets test their skills at rhyme, meter and metaphor through the Tanaga because is it rhymed and measured, while it exacts skillful use of words to create a puzzle that demands an answer. It was a dying art form, but the Cultural Center of the Philippines ...
Filipino proverbs or Philippine proverbs [1] are traditional sayings or maxims used by Filipinos based on local culture, wisdom, and philosophies from Filipino life.The word Sawikain proverb corresponds to the Tagalog words salawikain, [2] [3] kasabihan [2] (saying) and sawikain [3] (although the latter may also refer to mottos or idioms), and to the Ilocano word sarsarita.
Pinapaitan or papaitan (lit. "to [make] bitter") is a Filipino-Ilocano stew made with goat meat and offal and flavored with its bile, chyme, or cud (also known as papait). [2] [3] [4] This papait gives the stew its signature bitter flavor profile or "pait" (lit. "bitter"), [5] [6] a flavor profile commonly associated with Ilocano cuisine.