tiklo
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Cebuano
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tiklô
- to catch something by enclosing the neck with a band or loop attached to the end of a pole
- (slang) to steal something petty
- (slang) to catch someone committing a petty crime
- (slang) to kill
Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: tiklo (“caught; arrested”)
References
[edit]- John U. Wolff (1972) A dictionary of Cebuano Visayan[1] (overall work in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, page 1009
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Cebuano tiklo (“slang: to catch someone committing a petty crime”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /tikˈloʔ/ [t̪ɪkˈloʔ]
- Rhymes: -oʔ
- Syllabification: tik‧lo
Adjective
[edit]tiklô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜃ᜔ᜎᜓ)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tiklo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN, page 141
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- Cebuano terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Cebuano slang
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- Tagalog terms derived from Cebuano
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/oʔ
- Rhymes:Tagalog/oʔ/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with maragsa pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog adjectives
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
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