malikmata

• malicmata – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
• malik-mata

From malik +‎ mata. The word malik is an archaic assimilated form of bumalik, from balik.

• Hyphenation: ma‧lik‧ma‧ta
• IPA^(key): /maˌlikmaˈta/, [mɐˌlik.mɐˈta]
• IPA^(key): /malikˈmataʔ/, [mɐ.lɪkˈma.tɐʔ]

malíkmatá or malikmatà (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎᜒᜃ᜔ᜋᜆ)

1. someone or something perceived to be someone or something but on the contrary; someone or something mistaken for someone or something

   Synonym: transpigurasyon

2. phantasm; illusion; visual deception

   Synonyms: kini-kinita, ilusyon, pantasmagorya

3. anything that has properties to morph or change form

   Synonym: transpigurasyon

4. an amulet that gives invisibility

   Synonyms: tagabulag, tagibulag

5. sleight of hand

   Synonym: salamangka

6. (obsolete) act of concealment or disgusing oneself [16th–17th c.]

• “malikmata”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Serrano Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario Tagalog-Hispano‎, Islas Filipinas
• 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
• Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 256: “Diſimularſe) Malicmata(pc) o disfraçarſe de lo que es”