Kalinga

• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /kɐ.lɪˈŋa/ (place), /kɐ.lɪŋˈɡa/ (people, language)

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Kalinga

1. A province of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tabuk. The province was created from the partitioning of Kalinga-Apayao

   Meronyms: Balbalan, Lubuagan, Pasil, Pinukpuk, Rizal, Tabuk, Tanudan, Tinglayan — city and municipalities of Kalinga

   Coordinate terms: Abra, Apayao, Baguio, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, Mountain Province — city and provinces of CAR

2. (historical) A former Spanish commandancy in the Philippines.
3. (historical) A former subprovince of the former province of Lepanto-Bontoc in northern Philippines, created from the commandancy.
4. A dialect continuum of Kalinga Province in the Philippines, spoken by the Kalinga people.

Kalinga pl (plural only)

1. An indigenous ethnic group whose ancestral domain is in the Cordillera Mountain Range of the northern Philippines.

Borrowed from Sanskrit कलिङ्ग (kaliṅga).

Kalinga

2. A historical region in modern Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, in eastern India.
   • 1872, William Wilson Hunter, Orissa: Or the Vicissitudes of an Indian Province Under Native and British Rule‎^[1], Smith, Elder and Company, page 171:

     The name Kalinga is applied more distinctively to the delta of the Godávarí, while the delta of the Mahánadí, on the north, gradually stands out as a separate country.

   • 1964, Nabin Kumar Sahu, Utkal University History Of Orissa‎^[2], volume 1, The Utkal University, page 3:

     The ancient Kalinga, the fame of which, at one time, spread over the entire South Asia lies now partly in Andhra and partly in Orissa.

   • 1967, A. L. Basham, The Wonder That Was India‎^[3], Taplinger Publishing Company, page 49:

     He was an unpopular upstart, but, as far as can be gathered from the few references to him, he was an energetic and ambitious king, who succeeded in gaining control of Kaliṅga (the modern Orissā and the northern coastal strip of Āndhra Pradesh), and perhaps of other parts of the Deccan.

   • 2008, Orissa: An Encyclopaedia of Events‎^[4], 2 edition, Sankalpa Publications, page 35:

     Chodaganga Dev defeated Karna Dev, the Somavansi king and allowed him to continue as a tributary ruler. Kalinga and Utkal were amalgamated into one kingdom.

4. A mythological kingdom in eastern South Asia, described in the Mahabharata.

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• Hyphenation: Ka‧li‧nga
• IPA^(key): /kaliˈŋa/ [kɐ.l̪ɪˈŋa]

Kalinga

1. Kalinga (a province of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines; capital and largest city: Tabuk)
2. (historical) a former Spanish commandancy
3. (historical) the subprovince of Kalinga

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /kaˈliŋɡa/ [kɐˈliŋ.ɡɐ] (prescribed)
    • Rhymes: -iŋɡa
    • Syllabification: Ka‧lin‧ga
  • IPA^(key): /kaliˈŋa/ [kɐ.lɪˈŋa]
    • Rhymes: -a
    • Syllabification: Ka‧li‧nga
    • Homophone: kalinga

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Kalinga or Kalingá (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒᜅ᜔ᜄ or ᜃᜎᜒᜅ)

1. Kalinga (a province of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines; capital and largest city: Tabuk)
2. Kalinga (ethnic group)
3. (historical) the subprovince of Kalinga, once part of Kalinga-Apayao in the Cordillera Administrative Region

• “Kalinga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018