abaka

abaka (plural abakas)

1. Alternative spelling of abaca

• Akaba, Kaaba

From Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “abaca”).

• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧ka
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔabaka/, [ˈʔa.bʌ.kʌ]

ábaka

1. Cebu hemp (Musa textilis); a species of banana tree native to the Philippines
2. the fiber obtained from this plant

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 131

From Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “abaca”).

abaka

1. Manila hemp; abaca

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 131

From Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “abaca”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔabaˈka/, [ʔa.baˈka]

abaká

1. Manila hemp, abaca

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 131

Cognate with Yami avaka.

abaka

1. Manila hemp; abaca

• IPA^(key): /ʔabaˈka/, [ʔɐ.bɐˈka]
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧ka

abaká

1. abaca; Manila hemp

Cognate with Malay abaka

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abaka (first-person possessive abakaku, second-person possessive abakamu, third-person possessive abakanya)

1. abaca plant

• “abaka” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “abaca”).

abaka

1. abaca

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 131

abaka m

1. genitive singular of abaks

From Tagalog abaka.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): [aˈba.kə], /aˈbakə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): [aˈba.ka], /aˈbaka/

abaka (Jawi spelling اباک, plural abaka-abaka, informal 1st possessive abakaku, 2nd possessive abakamu, 3rd possessive abakanya)

1. abaca (plant)

• pisang benang / ڤيسڠ بنڠ
• pisang manila / ڤيسڠ مانيلا
• pisang tali / ڤيسڠ تالي

• “abaka” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed from Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq).

• IPA^(key): /aˈba.ka/

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• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧ka

abaka f

1. abaca, Manila hemp (fibre of the abaca)

   Synonym: manila

• abaka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• abaka in PWN's encyclopedia

• IPA^(key): [ˈabaka]

abaka f (genitive singular abaky, declension pattern of žena)

1. Manila hemp

• “abaka”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Borrowed from Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq, “abaca”), from Classical Syriac ܐܳܦܰܩܬܳܐ (ʾāpaqtā), ܐܰܦܩܰܥܬܳܐ (ʾap̄qaʿtā, “de-seeded cotton”). According to Potet (2013), Muslim marine merchants imposed their term on their suppliers so that native terms died out in the Philippines.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔabaˈka/ [ʔɐ.bɐˈxa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧ka

abaká (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊᜃ)

1. Manila hemp; abaca

   Si Pedro ay gumamit ng abaka sa pagtali ng kahoy.

   Pedro used abaca to tie the wood together.

• → Galician: abacá
• → Malay: abaka
• → Portuguese: abacá
• → Spanish: abacá
  • → English: abaca
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: abaca

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 131