aplay

Borrowed from English apply, from Old French applier, from Latin applicō (“join, fix, or attach to”); from ad + plicō (“fold, twist together”).

• Hyphenation: a‧play

aplay

1. to apply for a job or position

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Borrowed from English apply.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔapˈlaj/ [ʔɐpˈlaɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Syllabification: ap‧lay

apláy (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜉ᜔ᜎᜌ᜔) (colloquial)

1. act of applying (for a position, candidacy, etc.)
2. act of putting to use (a method, etc.)
3. act of putting one thing on another (of cream, lotion, etc.)

• “aplay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018