Tagalog

[ tah-gah-lawg, tuh- ]

noun,plural Ta·ga·logs, (especially collectively) Ta·ga·log for 1.
  1. a member of a Malayan people native to Luzon, in the Philippines.

  2. the principal language of the Philippines, an Indonesian language of the Austronesian family.

Words Nearby Tagalog

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How to use Tagalog in a sentence

  • The first four of these are known as Tagalog provinces; the fifth is inhabited by Ilocanos and Pampangans.

  • I have also seen it used many times in Manila by Tagalog who were caught out in a storm without an umbrella.

    The Bontoc Igorot | Albert Ernest Jenks
  • Thence the application of the word expanded and it now corresponds to the Tagalog lam and the Cebu-Bisya s-dan.

    The Manbos of Mindano | John M. Garvan

British Dictionary definitions for Tagalog

Tagalog

/ (təˈɡɑːlɒɡ) /


noun
  1. plural -logs or -log a member of a people of the Philippines, living chiefly in the region around Manila

  2. the language of this people, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian family: the official language of the Philippines

adjective
  1. of or relating to this people or their language

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