Tagalog

[tah-gah-lawg, tuh-]

noun, plural Ta·ga·logs, (especially collectively) Ta·ga·log for 1.

a member of a Malayan people native to Luzon, in the Philippines.
the principal language of the Philippines, an Indonesian language of the Austronesian family.

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Examples from the Web for tagalog

Contemporary Examples of tagalog

Too many of the literary works I come across these days are in Tagalog.
Gary Shteyngart: How I Write
Noah Charney
December 26, 2012

Historical Examples of tagalog

The left eye of the big Tagalog glittered white in the night!
Terry
Charles Goff Thomson
“Your journey is shorter than you thought,” the officer said to the Tagalog.
Anting-Anting Stories
Sargent Kayme
Emilio Aguinaldo was born in 1870, of Chinese and Tagalog parentage.
Poems of American History
Various
The Battak speech of Sumatra is said to be closely allied to the Tagalog.
Philippine Progress Prior to 1898
Various
We went to order some embroidery one day of a Tagalog woman.
The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines
Isabel Anderson

British Dictionary definitions for tagalog

Tagalog

noun

plural -logs or -log a member of a people of the Philippines, living chiefly in the region around Manila
the language of this people, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian family: the official language of the Philippines

adjective

of or relating to this people or their language

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Word Origin and History for tagalog

Tagalog

people living near Manila in the Philippines, also their language, 1704, from Tagalog taga "native to" + ilog "river."