把拉

Chinese

phonetic
simp. and trad.
(把拉)
anagram 拉把

Etymology

Possibly from Spanish paga (payment; to pay, IPA: [ˈpa.ɣ̞a]), imperative and indicative inflection of Spanish pagar (to pay), which was frequently used as the main definition in 1½ of the pages for the Hokkien term for "to pay", attested and translated in Spanish in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642).[1] The Chinese community of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era used to speak a sort of Spanish pidgin variety known in Spanish as "Caló Chino Español", "La lengua del Parián", "Lengua de Tienda" or in Tagalog as "Kastilang tindahan".[2][3][4]

See also Taiwanese Hokkien 飛行機 / 飞行机 (hoe-lêng-ki / poe-lêng-ki / hui-lêng-ki / hoe-nn̄g-ki), which came from Taiwanese Hokkien 飛行機 / 飞行机 (hui-hêng-ki), where the initial of the second syllable (hêng) also turned into (lêng).

Pronunciation


Verb

把拉

  1. (Philippine Hokkien) to pay (in person)

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References

  1. ^ Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642, page 356/193; republished as Fabio Yuchung Lee (李毓中), Chen Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), Regalado Trota José, José Luis Caño Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum[2], Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN
  2. ^ Andrade, Pío (2008), “Education and Spanish in the Philippines”, in Asociación Cultural Galeón de Manila[3], archived from the original on 14 April 2013
  3. ^ Ferdinand Blumentritt; T. H. Pardo de Tavera (1885), “PARIAN (LA LENGUA DEL)”, in Vocabular einzelner Ausdrücke und Redensarten, welche dem Spanischen der philippinischen Inseln eigenthümlich sind, volume II. (overall work in German and Philippine Spanish), Leitmeritz: Verlag der Communal-Ober-Realschule, page 18
  4. ^ Fernández, Mauro (2018), “El pidgin chino-español de Manila a principios del siglo XVIII”, in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie[4], volume 134, number 1, De Gruyter, →DOI