kulantro
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ku‧lan‧tro
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- colanto — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
- kilantro
- kulanto — obsolete
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish culantro, from Late Latin coliandrum, from Latin coriandrum (“coriander”), from Ancient Greek κορίανδρον (koríandron). Doublet of koriyandro.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kuˈlantɾo/ [kʊˈlan.tɾo], /kulanˈtɾo/ [kʊ.lɐnˈtɾo]
- Rhymes: -antɾo, -o
- Syllabification: ku‧lan‧tro
Noun
kulantro or kulantró (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜎᜈ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜇᜓ)
- cilantro (US); coriander (UK; also used for the plant itself across English dialects) (Coriandrum sativum)
- Synonyms: wansoy, koriyandro
Further reading
- “kulantro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 208: “Culantro) Colanto [(pc)] C. yerua de Caſtilla q̃ aca nola auia”
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