siyak
Bikol Central
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: si‧yak
- IPA(key): /si ˈjak/
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- siac – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
Etymology
Borrowed from Brunei Malay syeikh (“scholar; sheik”), from Arabic شَيْخ (šayḵ, “sheik; elder”). Compare Indonesian syekh. Doublet of heke.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: si‧yak
- IPA(key): /siˈak/, [ˈʃak]
Noun
siyák (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜌᜃ᜔)
Derived terms
- kasiyak-siyakan
See also
Further reading
- “siyak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
- Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 448: “Obispo( Siac (pc) o maeſtro de los moros, es Bocablo Burney, y de [alla venia] a esta tierra a enſeñar la hedionda ley de Mahoma, traya vna como mitra.”
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2017) Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 525
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