abaka (pluralabakas)

1. Alternative spelling ofabaca.

• Akaba,Kaaba

FromArabicأَبَق(ʔabaq,“abaca”).

• Hyphenation:a‧ba‧ka
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔabaka/ [ˈʔa.bɐ.kɐ]

ábaka

1. Cebu hemp (Musa textilis); a species ofbanana tree native to thePhilippines
2. the fiber obtained from this plant

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013),Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press,→ISBN,page131

FromArabicأَبَق(ʔabaq,“abaca”).

abaka

1. Manila hemp;abaca

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013),Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press,→ISBN,page131

CompareTagalogabaka.

• IPA^(key): /ʔabaˈka/[ʔa.baˈka]
• Rhymes:-a
• Syllabification:a‧ba‧ka

abaká (Hanunoo spellingᜠᜪᜣ)(botany)

1. abaca;Manila hemp

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953),Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press,→OCLC,page17

FromArabicأَبَق(ʔabaq,“abaca”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔabaˈka/ [ʔa.baˈka]

abaká

1. Manila hemp,abaca

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013),Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press,→ISBN,page131

FromBikol Centralabaka.

• IPA^(key): /ʔabaˈka/

abaka

1. Manila hemp,abaca

Cognate withYamiavaka.

abaka

1. Manila hemp;abaca

• IPA^(key): /ʔabaˈka/ [ʔɐ.bɐˈka]
• Hyphenation:a‧ba‧ka

abaká

1. abaca;Manila hemp

Cognate withMalayabaka.

• (Standard Indonesian)IPA^(key): /aˈbaka/[aˈba.ka]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-aka
• Syllabification:a‧ba‧ka

abaka (pluralabaka-abaka)

1. abaca plant

• “abaka”, inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation –Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia,2016

FromArabicأَبَق(ʔabaq,“abaca”).

abaka

1. abaca

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013),Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press,→ISBN,page131

abaka m

1. genitivesingular ofabaks

From eitherPhilippine Spanishabacá orTagalogabaka or directly fromArabicالْأَبَقَ(al-ʔabaqa,“the abaca”), theaccusativedefiniteinflection ofArabicأَبَق(ʔabaq,“abaca”).

• (schwa-variety)IPA^(key): /aˈbakə/ [aˈba.kə]

  • Audio(Malaysia):

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  • Rhymes:-akə
• (Baku)IPA^(key): /aˈbaka/ [aˈba.ka]

  • Audio(Malaysia):

    (file)

  • Rhymes:-aka
• Hyphenation:a‧ba‧ka

abaka (Jawi spellingاباک,pluralabaka-abaka)

1. abaca(plant)

   Synonyms:pisang benang,pisang manila,pisang tali

• “abaka”, inPusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur:Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka,2017

PolishWikipedia has an article on:

abaka

Wikipedia^pl

Borrowed fromArabicأَبَق(ʔabaq).

• IPA^(key): /aˈba.ka/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes:-aka
• Syllabification:a‧ba‧ka

abaka f

1. abaca,Manila hemp(fibre of the abaca)

   Synonym:manila

• abaka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• abaka in PWN's encyclopedia

• IPA^(key): [ˈabaka]

abaka f (genitivesingularabaky,declension pattern ofžena)

1. Manila hemp

• “abaka”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025

Possibly from the following:

• According to Potet (2013),borrowed fromArabicالْأَبَقَ(al-ʔabaqa,“the abaca”), theaccusativedefiniteinflection ofArabicأَبَق(ʔabaq,“abaca”), fromClassical Syriacܐܳܦܰܩܬܳܐ(ʾāpaqtā),ܐܰܦܩܰܥܬܳܐ(ʾap̄qaʿtā,“de-seeded cotton”). He added that Muslim marine merchants imposed their term on Philippine suppliers so that the native terms died out in the Philippines.
• According to Blust, Robert & Trussel (2023),inherited fromProto-Philippine*abaká(“Manila hemp:Musa textilis”).

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key): /ʔabaˈka/[ʔɐ.bɐˈxa]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes:-a
• Syllabification:a‧ba‧ka

abaká (Baybayin spellingᜀᜊᜃ)

1. Manila hemp;abaca

   Synonyms:ibilaw,(obsolete)labayo

   Si Pedro ay gumamit ngabaka sa pagtali ng kahoy.

   Pedro usedabaca to tie the wood together.

• →? Malay:abaka
• → Spanish:abacá
  • → Aragonese:abacá
  • → Catalan:abacà
  • → Chamorro:åbaka
  • → English:abaca
    • → Norwegian Bokmål:abaca
  • → French:abaca
  • → Galician:abacá
  • → Italian:abacà
  • →? Malay:abaka
  • → Portuguese:abacá

• “abaka”, inKWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino,Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino,2024
• “abaka”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013),Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press,→ISBN,page131
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*abaká”, in the CLDF dataset fromThe Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–),→DOI

• Kaaba

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