paraluman
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Tagalog[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From *dalom (“needle”) + pa- -an. Fossilized word *dalom possibly came from Malay jarum, ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *zaʀum (“needle”) (cf. karayom and Cebuano dagom). Cognate to Kapampangan paraluman, Maranao padoman, Tausug padduman, and Malay pedoman (“compass”). Doublet of karayom.
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paraluman (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜇᜎᜓᜋᜈ᜔)
- (poetic, figurative) muse; goddess (or any guiding light)
- (archaic) mariner's compass
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Further reading[edit]
- “paraluman”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 390
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 35: “Aguja) Paraloman (pp) de marear”