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    This document lists 15 Filipino words and their English translations, providing definitions for each term. Some of the Filipino words included are: pook-sapot for website, sulatroniko for e-mail, yakis for sharpen, pang-ulong hatinig for headset, and panginain for browser. The document aims to showcase lesser known Filipino words, especially those relating to technology, science, and trades like carpentry.

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    This document lists 15 Filipino words and their English translations, providing definitions for each term. Some of the Filipino words included are: pook-sapot for website, sulatroniko for e-mail, yakis for sharpen, pang-ulong hatinig for headset, and panginain for browser. The document aims to showcase lesser known Filipino words, especially those relating to technology, science, and trades like carpentry.

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    15 Filipino Words You Didn’t Know Exist

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    We often find foreigners who struggle to learn Tagalog rather amusing. But truth be told, Filipinos–no
    matter how fluent we are in speaking our native language–still have so much to learn.

    Ever heard of haynayan (biology),karumalan (menstrual period), orpanghibayo (amplifier)? If you


    haven’t heard of these words, then welcome to the club! Indeed, we can be strangers even to our
    own language.
    Here are another 15 Filipino words andNEOLOGISMS (i.e. recently invented) that you might want
    to share to your friends and office mates:

    Filipino word: Pook-sapot


    English translation: Website
    Definition: A place on the World Wide Web that contains information about a person, organization,
    etc., and that usually consists of many Web pages joined by hyperlinks. (Source: Merriam-
    Webster)

    Filipino word: Sulatroniko


    English translation: E-mail
    Definition: A system for sending messages from one computer to another
    computer. (Source: Merriam-Webster)

    Filipino word: Yakis


    English translation: “To sharpen”
    Definition: To make (something) sharp or sharper. (Source: Merriam-Webster)

    Filipino word: Pang-ulong hatinig


    English translation: Headset
    Definition: A device that holds an earphone and a microphone in place on a person’s
    head. (Source: Merriam-Webster)
    Filipino word: Panginain
    English translation: Browser
    Definition: A computer program that is used to find and look at information on the
    Internet. (Source: Merriam-Webster)

    Filipino word: Pantablay


    English translation: Charger
    Definition: A device for charging storage batteries. (Source: Merriam-Webster)
    Filipino word: Miktinig
    English translation: Microphone
    Definition: An instrument whereby sound waves are caused to generate or modulate an electric
    current usually for the purpose of transmitting or recording sound (as speech or
    music). (Source: Merriam-Webster)

    Filipino word: Kawingan


    English translation: Hyperlink
    Definition: A highlighted word or picture in a document or Web page that you can click on with a
    computer mouse to go to another place in the same or a different document or Web
    page. (Source: Merriam-Webster)
    Filipino word: Initsigan
    English translation: Thermodynamics
    Definition: A science that deals with the action of heat and related forms of
    energy. (Source: Merriam-Webster)

    Filipino word: Duyog


    English translation: Eclipse
    Definition: An occasion when the sun looks like it is completely or partially covered with a dark
    circle because the moon is between the sun and the Earth. (Source: Merriam-Webster)
    Filipino word: Danumsigwasan
    English translation: Hydraulics
    Definition: The science that deals with ways to use liquid (such as water) when it is
    moving. (Source: Merriam-Webster)

    Filipino word: Dagibalniing liboy


    English translation: Electromagnetic wave
    Definition: One of the waves that are propagated by simultaneous periodic variations of electric and
    magnetic field intensity and that include radio waves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and
    gamma rays. (Source: Merriam-Webster)
    Filipino word: Bilnuran
    English translation: Arithmetic
    Definition: A branch of mathematics that deals usually with the nonnegative real numbers including
    sometimes the transfinite cardinals and with the application of the operations of addition,
    subtraction, multiplication, and division to them. (Source: Merriam-Webster)

    Filipino word: Asoge


    English translation: Mercury
    Definition: A silver metal that is liquid at normal temperatures. (Source: Merriam-Webster)
    Filipino word: Anluwage
    English translation: Carpenter
    Definition: A person whose job is to make or fix wooden objects or wooden parts of
    buildings. (Source: Merriam-Webster)

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