bahala
Tagalog
Etymology
From Sanskrit भार (bhāra, “burden; load; weight”).[1] Compare Cebuano bála / baláha (“to carry something on the back, not tied”),[2] Malay bahara (“weight”).[3][4] Otherwise, it may also possibly be from Bathala, which was from Sanskrit भट्टार (bhaṭṭāra, “revered, worshipful”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ba‧ha‧la
- IPA(key): /baˈhalaʔ/, [bɐˈha.lɐʔ]
Noun
bahalà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜑᜎ)
- responsibility
- ː Synonym: responsabilidad
- person responsible
- Synonyms: tagapangasiwa, katiwala, patnugot, tagapangalaga, tagapamahala
- management; custody; charge
- Synonyms: pangangasiwa, pamamatnubay, pamamatnugot
- apprehension; presentiment
Derived terms
- bahala ka
- bahala na
- bahalain
- bigay-bahala
- bigyang-bahala
- ibigay-bahala
- ikabahala
- ipabahala
- ipagsawalang-bahala
- kabahala
- kawalang-bahala
- mabahala
- magbigay-bahala
- makapagbigay-bahala
- mamahala
- may bahala
- pabahala
- pabahalaan
- pagbigyang-bahala
- pagkabahala
- pagsasawalang-bahala
- pamahalaan
- pamamahala
- sawalang-bahala
- tagapamahala
- walang-bahala
See also
Numeral
bahalà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜑᜎ)
Derived terms
- sambahala
References
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 276
- John U. Wolff (1972) A dictionary of Cebuano Visayan (in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
- “bahara” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Jose G. Kuizon (1964) The Sanskrit Loan-Words in the Cebuano-Bisayan Language, Cebu City: University of San Carlos, page 118
Further reading
- “bahala”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
- Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (es) El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog, la Faculté de médecine, A. Davy
Ternate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌba.ha.ˈlaː/
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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