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Definition: Filipino |
FilipinoAdjective1. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Philippines or its people or customs; "the Philippine President"; "our Filipino cook". Noun1. A native or inhabitant of the Philippines. 2. Official language of the Philippines; based on Tagalog; draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Filipino \Fil`i*pi"no\, noun; plural Filipinos. [Spanish expression]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Inhabitant of Philippines. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Filipino is the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippines along with English. The language, a member of the Austronesian languages, was primarily based on Tagalog.On November 13, 1937, the First National Assembly created the National Language Institute, which selected Tagalog for the basis of a new national language. In 1961, this language became known as Pilipino which was later renamed as Filipino.
When the national language-based Tagalog was developed, Lope K. Santos wrote the Balarila ng Wikang Pambansa and introduced the Abakada of 20 letters in which only one letter represents one meaningful sound in Tagalog. The 20 letters of Abakada are written as a b k d e g h i l m n ng o p r s t u w y. The National Language Institute of the Philippines initiated the new language in 1973. As a language designed to be the lingua franca of the islands, it borrows many words from the various languages used throughout the islands, although grammar is based on Tagalog. In 1976, The alphabet consists of 31 letters which include the 26 letters of the English alphabet, plus the Spanish ñ, ll,rr, and ch, and the ng (pronounced nang) of Tagalog. In practice though, the digraphs are considered as their two constituent letters. By 1987, it was revised and rr, ll and ch, all of which are of Spanish origin, were removed leaving 28 letters.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Filipino."
Synonym: FilipinoSynonym: Philippine (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Filipino |
| English words defined with "Filipino": Philippine ♦ Tagalog. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Filipino": INDEPENDENCE. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Filipino" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (Filipino, philippine), Spanish (philippine). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Filipino Sports Parade (1944) A Filipino Town Surprised (1900) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Filipino padre watching topographic work Crew off of FATHOMER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | U.S. Quarantine Station, Honolulu, Hawaii. : Filipino steerage. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | American missiles shelling a Filipino shack with "I will return" notice from MacArthur. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | [Five Filipino women, seated, wearing traditional costume. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Filipino children outside a native school house, Philippine Islands. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Spreckels sugar factory and sugar beet field with Mexican and Filipino workers thinning sugar beets. Monterey County, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Last ditch stand in Luzon. On a rugged, mountainous peninsula and a heavily fortified island American and Filipino troops made their final stand against Japanese invaders of Luzon. Map shows the Bataan Peninsula-Borregidor-Manila area where the U.S. and J. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Filipino lettuce field laborer. Imperial Valley, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gang of Filipino boys thinning lettuce. Salinas Valley, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Eloy, Arizona. A church in the Negro section. Eloy is a town in the center of a farming area and most of the residents of the town are agricultural day laborers. Racial groups represented are White, Mexican, Filipino and Negroes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | E.O. 44 has declared the Philippine Youth Games " Batang Pinoy (The Filipino Child) as the National Sports Development Program for Children. (references) | |
Rafael “Paeng” Nepomuceno, a Filipino, is listed in the Guiness Book of Records as a record-holding five-time winner of the world ten-pin bowling competition. (references) | ||
The increasing popularity of this sport is due mainly to a Filipino named Efren “Bata” Reyes who gained worldwide fame when he won several international competitions. (references) | ||
Economic History | Philippines | Only a few Filipino families retain Spanish usage. (references) |
Marshall Islands | Ethnic groups: 90% Marshallese, 10% estimated U.S., Filipino, Chinese, New Zealander, and Korean. (references) | |
Philippines | Government regulations require the training of Filipino understudies for the positions held by foreigners. (references) | |
Human Rights | Malaysia | By year's end, all of the hostages held by a Filipino militant group had been released and authorities plan to take no further action in these cases. (references) |
Political Economy | PHILIPPINES | For example, the practice of licensed professions such as engineering, medicine, accountancy, environmental planning, and law is fully reserved for Filipino citizens. (references) |
PHILIPPINES | Also reserved for Filipino citizens are enterprises engaged in retail trade (with paid-up capital of less than $2.5 million, or less than $250,000 for retailers of luxury goods), mass media, small-scale mining, private security, cock fighting, utilization of marine resources, and manufacture of firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices. (references) | |
Travel | Philippines | The Filipino approach to the problem is to use staff capable of moving through the bureaucracy. (references) |
Philippines | To a Filipino, cultivating a friend, establishing a valuable contact and developing personal rapport are what make business wheels turn. (references) | |
Philippines | Where the Western businessperson thinks that time is gold and wants to get to the point immediately, the Filipino likes to be indirect, talk about mutual friends and family, exchange pleasantries, and joke. (references) | |
Women | Philippines | The National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), composed of 10 government officials and 10 NGO leaders appointed by the President, acts as an oversight body whose goal is to press for effective implementation of programs benefiting women. (references) |
Worker Rights | Philippines | In April President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered the allocation of a $1.6 million (80 million pesos) fund to assist Filipino workers facing legal problems abroad. (references) |
Philippines | Over the past decade, approximately 150,000 Filipino women reportedly have been trafficked into prostitution in Asia (particularly Japan), Europe, and North America. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Filipino" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Filipino" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 87.5% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Filipino": filipino-american. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
filipino recipe | 624 | filipino woman | 69 |
filipino | 540 | filipino lyrics song | 67 |
filipino scientist | 324 | filipino food recipe | 66 |
the filipino channel | 213 | filipino nude | 65 |
filipino food | 191 | filipino dish | 61 |
chemist filipino | 135 | filipino dictionary | 59 |
filipino girl | 133 | filipino wedding | 58 |
filipino joke | 125 | filipino tattoo | 57 |
filipino lyrics | 124 | filipino celebrity | 55 |
filipino music | 112 | filipino martial arts | 54 |
filipino news | 109 | filipino reporter | 51 |
filipino physicist | 98 | filipino actor | 51 |
filipino song | 96 | filipino inventor | 51 |
filipino movie | 94 | filipino web site | 51 |
filipino sex | 85 | filipino cuisine | 49 |
filipino porn | 83 | filipino language | 49 |
biologist filipino | 82 | filipino dessert | 45 |
filipino culture | 74 | filipino model | 44 |
filipino chat | 72 | filipino store | 43 |
filipino newspaper | 71 | filipino chat room | 42 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Filipino"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 菲律宾人 (Filipinos). (various references) | |
Danish | filippiner. (various references) | |
Dutch | Filippino. (various references) | |
Esperanto | filipinano. (various references) | |
Finnish | filippiiniläinen. (various references) | |
French | Philippin. (various references) | |
German | Philippiner. (various references) | |
Greek | φιλιππίνοσ, Φιλιππινέζος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fülöp-szigeti férfi, fülöp-szigeti. (various references) | |
Italian | filippino (philippine). (various references) | |
Korean | 필리핀 사람 (Filipinos). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilipinofay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | filipino (philippine). (various references) | |
Spanish | filipino (philippine). (various references) | |
Swedish | filippinare. (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับชาวฟิลิปปินส์, ชาวฟิลิปปินส์, าษาฟิลิปปินส์. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người Phi-líp-pin. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Filipino" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Filiminov, Filipa, filipin, Filipina, Filipo, Filippini, filippino, fillipino, Fillpina, Folarpilo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Filipino" (pronounced 'Fil`i*pi"no'): Aino, Albino, Andantino, Casino, Cassino, Clarino, Concertino, Giallolino, guano, inferno, kimono, kino, Leno, llano, Mano, maraschino, Medino, Melopiano, Mestino, mezzo-soprano, Notturno, Paisano, Pianino, Pieno, Porporino, Ripieno, Semolino, Siciliano, Solano, solferino, soprano, Vargueno, Vetturino, Volcano, Vulcano. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-i-i-l-n-o-p" | |
-3 letters: lipin. | |
-4 letters: filo, fino, flip, flop, foil, foin, info, lino, lion, loin, noil, pili, pion. | |
-5 letters: fil, fin, fon, fop, ion, lin, lip, lop, nil, nip, oil, pin, poi, pol. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-i-i-l-n-o-p" | |
+5 letters: amplification. | |
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