mungkahi
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- bongcahi, moncahi, mongcahi, pongcahi – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
- bungkahi, pungkahi
- munkahi
Etymology
According to the Vocabulario de la lengua tagala (1860), the variant pungkahi is the same with pungka, which is said to be of Chinese origin. Possibly from Hokkien 旁敲 (pông-khà, “sidestrike”) according to Manuel (1948).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mung‧ka‧hì
- IPA(key): /muŋˈkahiʔ/, [mʊŋˈka.hɪʔ]
- Rhymes: -ahiʔ
Noun
mungkahì (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜅ᜔ᜃᜑᜒ)
- suggestion; proposal
- Synonym: suhestiyon
- motion or proposition for discussion in a meeting or assembly
- Synonyms: panukala, masyon, resolusyon, proposisyon
- (obsolete) incitation; provocation; exhortation
Derived terms
- imungkahi
- ipagmungkahi
- ipamungkahi
- magmungkahi
- mamungkahi
- mungkahiin
- pagmungkahian
- pamungkahi
Related terms
Further reading
- “mungkahi”, 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
- Serrano Laktaw, Pedro (1915) Diccionario tagálog-hispano (in Spanish), Ateneo de Manila.
- Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 45
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