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

It is as follows: Customs of the Tagalogs This people always had chiefs, called by them datos, who governed them and were captains in their wars, and whom they obeyed and reverenced.

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 James Alexander Robertson

Perhaps a month of respite from attack had made the sentries careless; perhaps it was only that the Tagalogs had spent the time in gathering strength.

From Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos by Sargent Kayme

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 Francis St. Clair

Tagalogs planting rice to the sound of music.

From The Friars in the Philippines by Ambrose Coleman

Narrated by José Hilario of Batangas, who says that the tale is common among the Tagalogs, especially among the people living in the city of Batangas.

From Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler