Tagalog
Americannoun
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Tagalogs,
plural
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Tagalog
plural
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a member of a Malayan people native to Luzon, in the Philippines.
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the principal language of the Philippines, an Indonesian language of the Austronesian family.
noun
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a member of a people of the Philippines, living chiefly in the region around Manila
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the language of this people, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian family: the official language of the Philippines
adjective
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Eala, who grew up in Metro Manila and later graduated from the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2023, conducts at least part of every on-court interview in Tagalog.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Written in her native Tagalog, it allows her to "carry parts of my culture with me on court".
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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
Accordingly Bathala created Adam and Eve, the ancestors of the Tagalogs.
From Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler
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
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
I have tried to get word to them, but I can’t, because the Tagalogs watch me so close.
From Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos by Sargent Kayme
The Tagalogs could not face the fire with which the Americans met them.
From Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos by Sargent Kayme
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