talunan

talo +‎ -an.

• Hyphenation: ta‧lu‧nán
• IPA^(key): /taluˈnan/, [tɐlʊˈnan]

talunán

1. always defeated; never able to win (in war, games, sports, politics, etc.)

talunán

1. someone who never wins or is always defeated (in war, games, sports, politics, etc.)

• manalo
• matalo
• talunin

• Juan de Noceda; Pablo de Sanlucár (1613) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala‎ (in Spanish), published 1860, page 320: “TALO. pc. [...] talonan, el que siempre es vencido, nunca vencedor.”
• Rosalio Serrano (1854) Diccionario de terminos comunes tagalo-castellano‎ (in Spanish and Tagalog), page 137: “Talonán. Vencido en guerra, or en juego.”