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Lintik. Lintik is a Tagalog word meaning "lightning", also a mildly profane word used to someone contemptible, being wished to be hit by lightning, such as in " Lintik ka!''. [ 2] The term is mildly vulgar and an insult, but may be very vulgar in some cases, [ 20] especially when mixed with other profanity.
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [ 11] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [ 11] The input text had to be translated into English first ...
PL6057 .U63. The UP Diksiyonaryong Filipino ( UPDF; "UP Filipino Dictionary") is a series of monolingual Filipino dictionaries. The dictionaries were created by the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino of the University of the Philippines, with Virgilio S. Almario, National Artist for Literature and a professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman ...
Filipino proverbs. Filipino proverbs or Philippine proverbs[ 1] are traditional sayings or maxims used by Filipinos based on local culture, wisdom, and philosophies from Filipino life. The word Sawikain proverb corresponds to the Tagalog words salawikain, [ 2][ 3] kasabihan[ 2] (saying) and sawikain[ 3] (although the latter may also refer to ...
Bahala na. Bahala na ( Tagalog: [baˈhala ˈna]) is a Filipino term and value of either fatalism towards life or determinism in challenging situations. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It can be translated to mean "whatever happens, happens," "things will turn out fine," or as "I'll take care of things." [ 4] In Sikolohiyang Pilipino ( Filipino Psychology) it is ...
Leo James English. Leo James English (August 1907 – 1997) was the Australian compiler and editor of two of among the first most widely used bilingual dictionaries in the Philippines. He was the author of the two companion dictionaries namely, the English–Tagalog Dictionary (1965) and the Tagalog–English Dictionary (1986).
The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary does not contain antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters), as the editors found no widespread, sustained usage of the word in its original meaning. The longest word in that dictionary is electroencephalographically (27 ...
Comparison of English dictionaries. This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English. The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other ...