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The UP Diksiyonaryong Filipino (UPDF; "UP Filipino Dictionary") is a series of monolingual Filipino dictionaries. The dictionaries were created by the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino of the University of the Philippines, with Virgilio S. Almario, National Artist for Literature and a professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman, as editor-in-chief.
The Filipino language incorporated Spanish loanwords as a result of 333 years of contact with the Spanish language. In their analysis of José Villa Panganiban's Talahuluganang Pilipino-Ingles (Pilipino-English dictionary), Llamzon and Thorpe (1972) pointed out that 33% of word root entries are of Spanish origin. As the aforementioned analysis ...
According to Michael Tan, a Filipino anthropologist and Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist, the Tagalog Wikipedia greatly depends on the UP Diksyonaryong Filipino for basic definitions. [25] Though focused on the Tagalog language, it has pages that helps non-Tagalog speakers on anything related about the online project.
Gamit is a Bhil language of India, spoken by the Gamit people of Tapi district of Gujarat and by some people in Surat, Bharuch, Dang and Valsad districts of southern Gujarat. It is also spoken in Nandurbar and by some people in Dhule district in northern Maharashtra .
(Original meaning: a trick or ploy) Go down [63] [4] — get off a vehicle (Original meaning: To descend, decline, or to fail) Green — Indicates that something has sexual connotations. [16] (Original meaning: of a green hue; with a hue which is of grass or leaves) High blood [9] [28] — enraged, furious, agitated, flustered. (Original ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Heart disease and cardiovascular disease have almost the same meaning. However, heart disease specifically refers to conditions affecting the heart, while cardiovascular disease is a broader term ...
CV~ stands for reduplication of the first syllable of a root word; that is, the first consonant (if any) and the first vowel of the word. N stands for a nasal consonant, which are m, n, or ng. m is used when the prefixed word starts with the consonants b or p; n is used before the consonants d, t, and l; in all other cases, ng /ŋ/ is used