List of English words of Philippine origin

This is a list of English words which originate from any of the Philippine languages:

  • abacá - a species of banana native to the Philippines. The plant is of major economical importance, being harvested for its fibre, called manila hemp, from abaka
  • adobo - refers to a Philippine dish or a Latin American marinade. The word entered English in 1938 and is of Spanish origin.[1]
  • the boondocks - a remote, thinly settled, usually brushy rural area. Entered English in 1909 from the Tagalog bundok, which means "mountain"[2] or the word bunduk (Visayan Bukid) meaning "hinterland", i.e., land area inland, away from the shore.
  • calamondin - a small evergreen citrus fruit tree, native to the Philippines, and used there for cooking and as a houseplant elsewhere, from kalamunding
  • capiz - decoration material, made of mother-of-pearl shells that have the same name
  • cedula - a Philippine tax
  • cooties - from Tagalog and Austronesian word kuto which literally means "head lice". Entered English in 1917 from the Malay kutu.[3]
  • datto - a Philippine tribe leader
  • ditta - a Philippine tree
  • halo-halo - a dessert.[4]
  • lauan - the light yellow to reddish-brown or brown wood of any of various tropical southeast Asian trees, from lawaan
  • machin - a grayish brown long-tailed macaque (Macaca philippinensis), from matsing meaning monkey or ape
  • panguingue - a 19th-century gambling card game, from pangginggi
  • dita - a Philippine tree
  • salacot - broad-brimmed hat woven from strips of cane or from palm leaves, from salakot
  • ube - a Philippine yam
  • yo-yo - the toy, from Ilocano word yoyo[5]
  • shawty - a African-American ghetto dialect for girlfriend, from syota
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

References
  1. "adobo". merriam-webster.com. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
  2. "boondocks". merriam-webster.com. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
  3. "cootie". merriam-webster.com. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
  4. Alberto-Masakayan, Thea (25 June 2016). "Halo-halo, atbp: Filipino words make it to Oxford Dictionary". ABS-CBNnews.com. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  5. "yo–yo". Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary. Retrieved 31 October 2016. Origin and Etymology of yo–yo probably from Ilocano yóyo, or a cognate word in a language of the Philippines, First Known Use: 1915

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