List of English words of Tagalog origin
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This is a list of English language words of Tagalog language (Philippines) origin:
- abacá - a species of banana native to the Philippines. The plant is of major economical importance, being harvested for its fibre, called manila hemp.
- anahau - tall palm (Livistona rotundifolia) yielding a valuable wood used for golf clubs, a fiber used for bowstrings, and leaves used for thatching and for hats and fans
- bacauan - mangrove, from the Tagalog term bakawan,bakaw
- bagoong - fermented shrimp or fish paste
- boondocks - a remote, usually brushy rural area, from the Tagalog bundok, which means "mountain" or the word bunduk (Bisayan Bukid) meaning "hinterland", i.e., land area inland, away from the shore.
- calamondin - a small evergreen citrus fruit tree (Tagalog kalamunding), native to the Philippines, and used there for cooking and as a houseplant elsewhere.
- capiz - decoration material, made of mother-of-pearl shells that have the same name.
- carabao - water buffalo (Visayan karabaw)
- cogon - type of grass, used for thatching, from the Tagalog word kogon.
- cooties - from the common Austronesian and Tagalog word kuto which literally means "head lice".
- gulaman - an East Indian red alga (Gracilaria lichenoides) that is one of the chief sources of agar.
- kundiman - a love song
- lauan - the light yellow to reddish-brown or brown wood of any of various tropical southeast Asian trees,Tagalog word "lawaan"
- machin - a grayish brown long-tailed macaque, from the Tagalog word "matsing"
- Manila hemp - a type of fiber obtained from the leaves of the abacá (Musa textilis), a relative of the banana.
- panguingue - a 19th century gambling card game.
- salacot - broad-brimmed hat woven from strips of cane or from palm leaves .
- tamarau - a small dark hairy water buffalo (Bubalus mindorensis or Anoa mindorensis) of the Philippine island of Mindoro.
- ylang-ylang - type of flower known for its fragrance. used for perfumes.
- yo-yo - the toy. (actually from Ilokano language rather than Tagalog)
