sumbali
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- sombali – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay sembelih (“butcher an animal”), from a metathesis of Arabic بِاسْمِ اللّٰه (bismi llāh, “in the name of God”). Compare Maranao sombali' (“chant before butchering”), Tausug sumbayꞌ (“slaughter for eating”), and Malagasy sombily (“slaughter”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sum‧ba‧li
- IPA(key): /sumˈbali/, [sumˈba.lɪ]
Noun
sumbali (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜋ᜔ᜊᜎᜒ)
- (obsolete) cutting of the throat (like a pig, compare the Islamic practice of dhabihah)
- Synonym: tugis
Derived terms
- isumbali
- magsumbali
- pagsumbali
- pagsumbalihan
- pagsumbalihin
- sumbalihin
- sumumbali
References
- 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
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 156