salitang-hiram
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- salitang hiram
Etymology
From salita + -ng- + hiram, literally “borrowed word”.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa‧li‧tang-hi‧ram
- IPA(key): /saliˌtaŋ hiˈɾam/, [sɐ.lɪˌtaŋ hɪˈɾam]
Noun
salitáng-hirám (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎᜒᜆᜅ᜔ᜑᜒᜇᜋ᜔)
- loanword
- Maraming salitang-hiram mula sa Kastila ang karamihan ng mga wika sa Pilipinas
- Most of the Philippine languages have many loanwords from Spanish.