palo-palo

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Cebuano[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Reduplication of palo.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: pa‧lo‧pa‧lo

Noun[edit]

palo-palo

  1. a batlet; a short bat for beating clothes when washing them; a washing paddle
  2. arrowfin goby; any member of the genus Oxyurichthys

Verb[edit]

palo-palo

  1. to beat clothes when washing

Tagalog[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

palò-palò (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜓᜉᜎᜓ)

  1. Alternative form of palopalo

Further reading[edit]

  • palo-palo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018