talunan

From talo +‎ -nan.

• IPA^(key): /taluˈnan/, [tɐ.lʊˈnan]
• Hyphenation: ta‧lu‧nan

talunán (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜓᜈᜈ᜔)

1. defeated; beaten; never able to win (in war, games, sports, politics, etc.)
2. (gambling) defeated resulting in death (of a gamecock in cockfighting)

talunán (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜓᜈᜈ᜔)

1. loser; underdog (in war, games, sports, politics, etc.)

   Synonym: api-apihan

2. (gambling) gamecock defeated in a cockfight resulting to death

From talon +‎ -an.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /taluˈnan/ [tɐ.lʊˈnan] (verb)
    • Rhymes: -an
  • IPA^(key): /ˌtaˈlunan/ [ˌtaˈlu.nɐn] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -unan
• Syllabification: ta‧lu‧nan

talunán (complete tinalunan, progressive tinatalunan, contemplative tatalunan, Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜓᜈᜈ᜔)

1. to jump from; to leap from

   Synonym: lundagan

2. to skip from

   Synonym: saltuhan

tálúnan (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜓᜈᜈ᜔)

1. jumping contest or game

   Synonyms: lundagan, luksuhan

2. simultaneous jumping in joy (by a number of people)

   Synonyms: pagtatalunan, lundagan, paglulundagan, luksuhan, pagluluksuhan

• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, page 320: “TALO. pc. [...] talonan, el que siempre es vencido, nunca vencedor.”
• Rosalio Serrano (1854) Diccionario de terminos comunes tagalo-castellano‎ (in Spanish), page 137: “Talonán. Vencido en guerra, or en juego.”