tanghali

• tanhali — obsolete

Borrowed from Malay tengah hari (“noon”). Compare Remontado Agta tanghari.

• IPA^(key): /taŋˈhaliʔ/, [tɐŋˈha.lɪʔ]
• Hyphenation: tang‧ha‧li

tanghalì (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜅ᜔ᜑᜎᜒ)

1. noon; noontime; midday

• n.t.

tanghalì (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜅ᜔ᜑᜎᜒ) (figurative, colloquial)

1. late in the morning (with the sun already high up in the sky)

tanghalì (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜅ᜔ᜑᜎᜒ) (figurative, colloquial)

1. late in the morning (with the sun already high up in the sky)
2. (by extension) already late for something (said with na)

   Naku trapik! Tanghali na tayo sa panonoorin natin sa 6PM!

   Oh no a traffic jam! We're already late for our 6 pm movie!

   (literally, “It's noon already for us for our 6PM (movie).”)

   • 1838, Mahalin Ang Ating Wika 5:

     Kinabukasan ay inihanda ng ina ang paninda ni Maring. Nasa ibaba nang lahat ang paninda ngunit hindi pa bumababa si Maring. "Tanghali ka na!" sigaw ng ina. "Ano ba ang ginagawa mo pa?"

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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