Sanglay
See also: sanglay
English
Noun
Sanglay (plural Sanglays or Sanglayes)
- Alternative form of Sangley
- 1833, Alick Osborne, Notes on the Present State and Prospects of Society in New South Wales:
- In 1639, on pretence of a concerted insurrection, twenty-three thousand Sanglayes (descendants of Chinese and natives) were put to the sword.
- 1892, Onésime Reclus, A Bird's-eye View of the World, page 869:
- All these constituents - Christians or pagans, Tagals, Vicols, Chinese and Sanglays, Whites and Creoles, the subjugated and the untamed -- form a nation of 3 1/2 million men, including the neighboring islands.
- 1998, Carlos Cortés, Lassitude and other stories, →ISBN, page 62:
- Take it to Sugbu, barter for it with the Sanglay, the Chinese. For metal implements. Knives, needles. Porcelain and celadon ware. The Sanglay come in their batwinged junks with the onset of the northeast monsoon, the amihan.
- 2007, Gémino H. Abad, The Children's Hour: Stories on Childhood - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 122:
- Lim Pay went to the Parian — the pueblo of the Sanglays, where Father, Mother, and I often go after Sunday Mass to eat at the panciteria — to tell his friends that the gobernador was sending soldiers to take away their goods and close down their stores. Ah Beng said the Sanglays were very scared and some became angry.
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Tagalog
Alternative forms
- sanglay
Etymology
From either Spanish Sangley or directly from Hokkien, possibly from:
- 常來/来/常来/来 (siâng lâi, literally “frequently comes”), as labeled in the Boxer Codex (1590), from which Mandarin 常來人/常来人 (chángláirén) referring to Sangleys originates.
- 生理 (seng-lí, “business; livelihood”), according to Go (2014-2015).[1]
- 商旅 (siang-lí, “travelling merchant”), according to Hofileña (2011),[2] which Go (2014-2015) considers to be "a rather literal term uncommon among early Chinese in the Philippines".
- 送來/来/送来/来 (sàng lâi, literally “sent over”) or 生理人來/来/生理人来/来 (seng-lí-lâng lâi, literally “businessman comes”), according to Chan-Yap (1980). [3]
Doublet of Sangley.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Sang‧lay
- IPA(key): /saŋˈlaj/, [sɐnˈlaɪ̯]
Noun
Sangláy (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜅ᜔ᜎᜌ᜔)
- Chinese trader or merchant
- (historical) Alternative form of Sangley [4]
Derived terms
- Kasanglayan
- magsanglay
See also
- langlang
- Tsino
References
- Go, Bon Juan (December 23, 2014 – January 19, 2015), “Gems of History: Sangley”, in Tulay Fortnightly: Chinese-Filipino Digest, volume XXVII, issue 14, Manila: Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran, Inc., ISSN 0116-6689, pages 5-6
- Hofileña, Saul (2011), “Sangley Point and the former U.S. Navy Yard in Cavite City”, in Under the Stacks, Manila, →ISBN
- Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980), “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics (PDF), volume B, issue 71, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 132
- 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 545: “Sangley) Sanglay (pc) anſi llaman a los chinas”