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An example is the Tagalog word libre, which is derived from the Spanish translation of the English word free, although used in Tagalog with the meaning of "without cost or payment" or "free of charge", a usage which would be deemed incorrect in Spanish as the term gratis would be more fitting; Tagalog word libre can also mean free in aspect of ...
A calque / k æ l k / or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word (Latin: "verbum pro verbo") translation. This list contains examples of calques in various languages.
Words like "dalamhati" and "luwalhati" are modern loans, since "hati" (Malays consider emotions as coming from the liver, not the heart) is already an old cognate of "atay" yet the words use the Malay form "hati" instead of the Philippine form "atay", and the fact that "dalam" and "luar" have equivalents in Tagalog ("loob" and "labas") and ...
Here are some examples of words with meanings unique to Philippine English: Accomplish [5] — To fill out a form. (Original meaning: to finish successfully) Advanced [7] [5] — Indicates that a clock or watch is ahead of the standard time. (Original meaning: state-of-the-art) Blowout [27] — To treat somebody with a meal; [60] a birthday ...
The pre-colonial native Filipino script called baybayin was derived from the Brahmic scripts of India and first recorded in the 16th century. [13] According to Jocano, 336 loanwords in Filipino were identified by Professor Juan R. Francisco to be Sanskrit in origin, "with 150 of them identified as the origin of some major Philippine terms."
Tagalog; ไทย; Türkçe ... List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin; List of loanwords in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic; B. List of Bhojpuri words of ...
The word calque is a loanword, while the word loanword is a calque: calque comes from the French noun calque ("tracing; imitation; close copy"); [5] while the word loanword and the phrase loan translation are translated from German nouns Lehnwort [6] and Lehnübersetzung (German: [ˈleːnʔybɐˌzɛt͡sʊŋ] ⓘ).
See as example Category:English words. Pages in category "Tagalog words and phrases" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.