Joi Barrios - Tuttle Pocket Tagalog Dictionary: Tagalog-English / English-Tagalog

TUTTLE

Pocket
Tagalog
Dictionary

Tagalog-English
English-Tagalog

Joi Barrios, Nenita Pambid Domingo and Romulo Baquiran, Jr.

Contributors: Marc Castillo, Agnes Magtoto,

Maria Cora Larobis and Teresita Raval

Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.

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2020 by Joi Barrios

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DEDICATION

To Kendall, JJ, Jose, Vera, Noel, Vita, Reuben, and to all who wish to understand and learn Filipino language and culture, may this book help and guide you through your journey.

Nenita Domingo

To my husband Pierre and my son Eli, parents Bien, Rio and Nic and UCB Filipino teachers Chat Aban and Karen Llagas.

Joi Barrios

To my teachers and colleagues in Philippine StudiesNelia Cubar, Consuelo J. Paz, Virgilio S. Almario, Bienvenido Lumbera, and most especially Masanao Oue.

Romulo Baquiran, Jr.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Joi Barrios would like to thank editor Nancy. Also, editorial assistant Marc Castillo, research assistants Ryann Kitchell, Abigail Ong, Raphael Bernabe, Krishna Mae Cabrera, Paulene Rejano and Ranna Iglesias.

Nenita Pambid Domingo would like to thank: Teresita Raval, Reuben T. Domingo, Megan Villamin and Jose Lorenzo G. Ignacio for all the help extended towards the completion of this project; Dr. Prospero R. Covar, Dr. Zeus A. Salazar, Dr. William Henry Scott, Dr. Joi Barrios, Nancy and the staff of Tuttle Publishing who painstakingly read all the proofs and patiently worked with usSa Dakilang Manlilikha. Maraming salamat po! Marapatin po ninyo ang alay na ito.

Grateful acknowledgment is also due to the following references:

English-Tagalog Dictionary, Leo James English. Mandaluyong City, Philippines: National Book Store, 1977.

First Vicassans Pilipino-English Dictionary, Vito C. Santos. Caloocan City, Philippines: National Book Store, 1978.

Tagalog-English Dictionary, Leo James English. Mandaluyong City, Philippines: National Book Store, 1986.

UP Diksiyonaryong Filipino, Binagong Edisyon Virgilio S. Almario. Pasig City, Philippines: UP Sentro ng Wikang Filipino-Diliman, Anvil Publishing Inc., 2010

These references and the compilers own knowledge of the language as well as the current use of the language readily available in the Internet served as the 12 native speakers of Noceda and Sanlucar (editors/authors of Vocabulario de la Lengua Tagala, 1754, 1860) to verify the meanings of the entries.

INTRODUCTION

Why do we constantly need to develop dictionaries? What makes this dictionary different from other available Tagalog-English-Tagalog dictionaries?

First, because language is dynamic and ever changing new words are borrowed and adapted from other languages, some words become less frequently used and others are imbued with different meanings. For example, the word kasama originally meaning companion, has come to mean comrade for Filipino activists, while the English word salvaging, originally meaning to recover, is now used to refer to extra-judicial executions. These new meanings need to be incorporated in new dictionaries, such as this one.

Second, because of particular needs of specific populations. In the Philippines, dictionaries were essential to the colonization project, with Spanish-Tagalog and English-Tagalog dictionaries developed by scholars so that the native population could be better understood and effectively colonized. In compiling and editing the Tuttle series of English-Tagalog dictionaries, co-editor Nenita Pambid-Domingo and I, as well as our copyeditor and consultant Romulo Baquiran, Jr., our contributors Agnes Magtoto, Maria Cora Larobis and Teresita Raval and our editorial assistant Marc Castillo, were mindful that many of the users will be heritage language learners (second or third generation Filipinos living in the United States, Japan or other countries). Thus, our work was informed by our experiences as teachers of Filipino/Tagalog at University of California Berkeley (for myself), University of California Los Angeles (for Domingo), Osaka University (for Baquiran) and New York University (for Magtoto).

Third, because dictionaries reflect the values and principles adhered to at a particular time. For example, Vocabulario de la lengua Tagala (Imprenta de Ramirez y Giraudier, 1860) by Juan D. Noceda and Pedro Sanlucar contains examples of indigenous poetry. For this dictionary, it was important for us to point out words used pejoratively to women and other groups as a way of discouraging sexist, racist or demeaning language.

This introduction is divided into six sections that start with questions you may have:

Who are the Tagalogs and what is their language Tagalog?

How widely is Tagalog spoken? What makes Metro Manila Tagalog/Filipino different from the Tagalog spoken in other parts of Central and Southern Luzon? How can we study these language variations?

What are the differences between Tagalog, Pilipino and Filipino? How can we understand this by studying the history of the Philippines?

How can we understand the language through the history of its letters?

What makes the Tuttle series of English-Tagalog dictionaries different from other dictionaries? How were the entries selected in this dictionary series?

How do we pronounce words in Tagalog/Filipino?

How can we use this dictionary?

Who are the Tagalogs and what is their language Tagalog?

The word Tagalog refers to both the Tagalogs, and the language of this ethnolinguistic group. The ethnolinguistic group, the Tagalog, lives in Metro Manila or the National Capital Region, and the provinces of Aurora, Bataan, Batangas, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, Marinduque, Nueva Ecija, Quezon, Tarlac and Zambales, as well as in the coastal areas of Mindoro and some areas of Palawan.

Here is how historian William Henry Scott described the Tagalog in the 16th-century:

Sixteenth-century Tagalog farmers grew rice both in swiddens and irrigated fields and knew neither draft animals, plows nor wheeled vehicles. Cloth was woven in backstrap looms; pottery was made by the paddle-and-anvil technique and fired in the open air with rice straw, and iron was worked with a two-piston Malay forge and stone mauls. Sugarcane juice was extracted, not for sugar but for wine, with a two-pole press operated like a pump handle and reduced to alcohol in a still made from a hollow tree trunk and sipped through reed straws. Boards were adzed to size in the forest, now sawed and mortised together without nails, and boats were constructed of carved planks sewn together. Chinese porcelains were esteemed as heirloom wealth, and bronze gongs played either with naked palms or a drumstick to accompany dances in which both men and women danced with outstretched arms without touching their partners. (10)