Tagalog

American  

[tah-gah-lawg, tuh-] / tɑˈgɑ lɔg, tə- /

noun

Tagalogs, plural Tagalog plural

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.

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Tagalog British  

/ təˈɡɑːlɒɡ /

noun

1. 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

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adjective

1. of or relating to this people or their language

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Tagalog
  plural
• Tagalogs
  plural

Example Sentences

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Tagalog Tagalogs

Written in her native Tagalog, it allows her to "carry parts of my culture with me on court".

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Step off the 7 train, and languages quickly shift from Nepali and Bengali to Spanish and Tagalog as you walk between blocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

The exercise, whose name translates as “shoulder-to-shoulder” from the local Tagalog language, has also become the prime testing ground for expanded cooperation between America’s allies in the Pacific.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

"Ate Bianca, Jiggly, I hope you know that you are loved," said the franchise's breakout star, Marina Summers, using a term of endearmeant in Tagalog.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025

He yelled in a language I later found out was Tagalog, and the older woman rushed into the hallway.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

This is a common game among the Tagalogs of Mindoro Island.

From Philippine Folk-Tales by Millington, W. H.

The decree of August 9 is taken from the “Cedulario Indico” in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; and Plasencia's accounts of the Tagalogs, from Santa Inés's Crónica, ii, pp.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

They fired two rounds without disconcerting the Tagalogs very much, and then, having no more ammunition, they "all ran home again," as my informant naïvely described it.

From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Fee, Mary Helen

As a people the Tagalogs number about one and a half millions, and inhabit the regions around about Manila.

From The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune by St. Clair, Francis

Spain first occupied the place in 1855 and garrisoned it with several hundred Hokanos and Tagalogs.

From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Willcox, Cornélis de Witt