malikmata
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- malicmata – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
- malik-mata
Etymology
From malik + mata. The word malik is an archaic assimilated form of bumalik, from balik.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ma‧lik‧ma‧ta
- IPA(key): /maˌlikmaˈta/, [mɐˌlik.mɐˈta]
- IPA(key): /malikˈmataʔ/, [mɐ.lɪkˈma.tɐʔ]
Noun
malíkmatá or malikmatà
- someone or something perceived to be someone or something but on the contrary; someone or something mistaken for someone or something
- Synonym: transpigurasyon
- phantasm; illusion; visual deception
- Synonyms: kini-kinita, ilusyon, pantasmagorya
- anything that has properties to morph or change form
- Synonym: transpigurasyon
- an amulet that gives invisibility
- Synonyms: tagabulag, tagibulag
- sleight of hand
- Synonym: salamangka
- (obsolete) act of concealment or disgusing oneself [16th–17th c.]
Derived terms
- ipagmalikmata
- magmalikmata
- mamalikmata
- mamalikmata
- pagmalikmata
- pagmalikmataan
See also
- anting-anting
Further reading
- Serrano Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario Tagalog-Hispano, Islas Filipinas
- Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 256: “Diſimularſe) Malicmata(pc) o disfraçarſe de lo que es”