List of English words of Philippine origin

This is a list of English words which have Tagalog (Philippine) origin (some words are from other Philippine languages):

• abacá - a species of banana native to the Philippines. The plant is of major economical importance, being harvested for its fibre, called manila hemp, from abaka
• balikbayan - a Filipino visiting or returning to the Philippines after a period of living in another country.^[1]
• balikbayan box - a carton shipped or brought to the Philippines from another country by a Filipino who has been living overseas, typically containing items such as food, clothing, toys, and household products.^[1]
• boondocks - a remote, usually brushy rural area, from the Tagalog bundok, which means "mountain" or the word bunduk (Visayan Bukid) meaning "hinterland", i.e., land area inland, away from the shore.
• calamondin - a small evergreen citrus fruit tree, native to the Philippines, and used there for cooking and as a houseplant elsewhere, from kalamunding
• capiz - decoration material, made of mother-of-pearl shells that have the same name
• cooties - from Tagalog and Austronesian word kuto which literally means "head lice"
• halo-halo - a dessert.^[2]
• Jeepney - public transportation in the Philippines.
• lauan - the light yellow to reddish-brown or brown wood of any of various tropical southeast Asian trees, from lawaan
• machin - a grayish brown long-tailed macaque (Macaca philippinensis), from matsing meaning monkey or ape
• panguingue - a 19th-century gambling card game, from pangginggi
• salacot - broad-brimmed hat woven from strips of cane or from palm leaves, from salakot
• yo-yo - the toy, from Ilokano word yoyo^[3]

References

See also

• Lists of English words of international origin
• Pseudo-anglicism