talaga

See also: Talaga

Agutaynen

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *talagá (“truly, surely, really, in fact”).

Adverb

talaga

1. really

Bikol Central

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *talagá (“truly, surely, really, in fact”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /talaˈɡa/ [ta.l̪aˈɡa]
• Hyphenation: ta‧la‧ga

Adverb

talagá (Basahan spelling ᜆᜎᜄ)

1. really; truly

   Synonyms: nanggad, baya

Old Javanese

Etymology

From Sanskrit तलक (talaka) or तडाग (taḍāga).

Noun

talaga

1. a well
2. lake
3. tank
4. pool, pond

Derived terms

• analaga
• atalaga
• tinalaga

 

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦠ꧀ꦭꦒ (tlaga)

Old Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian телега (telega).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /talʲaɡa/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /talʲaɡa/

Noun

talaga f

1. Alternative form of telega

Further reading

• Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/telega on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource ^pl

Sundanese

Romanization

talaga

1. Romanization of ᮒᮜᮌ

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *talagá (“truly, surely, really, in fact”). Compare Kapampangan talaga and Bikol Central talaga.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /talaˈɡa/ [t̪ɐ.lɐˈɣa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ta‧la‧ga

Adverb

talagá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜄ)

1. surely; certainly; really; undoubtedly

   Synonyms: sigurado, tiyak, walang-duda, walang-alinlangan

2. purposely; intentionally

   Synonyms: sadya, sinadya

Alternative forms

• tlaga, tlga, tlg — text messaging

Interjection

talagá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜄ)

1. indeed!; certainly

Noun

talagá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜄ)

1. will; disposition (as of God)

   Synonyms: loob, kalooban

2. act of inducting or installing (of officers, officials, etc.)

   Synonyms: pagpapanumpa, pagpapaluklok

3. act of assigning an employee (to a certain place)

   Synonyms: destino, pagdedestino, asignasyon

4. act of setting aside of something (for a certain purpose)

   Synonyms: laan, paglalaan, taan, pagtataan

Derived terms

• italaga
• katalagahan
• magtalaga
• matalaga
• nakatalaga
• pagtatalaga
• tumalaga

 

Etymology 2

Possibly borrowed from Malay telaga, from Sanskrit तलक (talaka, “pond”). Compare Javanese ꦠ꧀ꦭꦒ (tlaga, “lake”), Kapampangan talaga, Sundanese ᮒᮜᮌ (talaga, “lake”), and Ternate talaga (“lake”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈlaɡaʔ/ [t̪ɐˈlaː.ɣɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -aɡaʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧la‧ga

Noun

talagà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜄ)

1. well (of water)

   Synonym: balon

See also

• balong
• tangke

 

Further reading

• “talaga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1887) El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog‎^[1] (in Spanish), Paris: Imprimerie de la Faculté de Médecine, A. Davy, page 53

Anagrams

• Tagala

Ternate

Etymology

From Malay telaga, from Sanskrit तलक (talaka, “pond”), तडाग (taḍāga, “pond”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta.ˈla.ɡa]

Noun

talaga

1. a lake

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh