binyag
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- biniyag — obsolete
Etymology
According to the Vocabulario de la lengua tagala (1860), this word is from Brunei, perhaps Brunei Malay, which originally meant “to pour water from above”, which was an ablution ceremony (cf. wudu) done by an imam while teaching Islam, and was possibly later applied to Christian baptism. Blust & Trussel also posit Proto-Philippine *buniag. Compare Ilocano buniag, Kapampangan biniag, Central Bikol bunyag, Cebuano bunyag, Hiligaynon bunyag, and Maranao boniyag.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /binˈjaɡ/ [bɪnˈɲaɡ̚]
- IPA(key): (no palatal assimilation) /binˈjaɡ/ [bɪn̪ˈjaɡ̚]
- Rhymes: -aɡ
- Syllabification: bin‧yag
Noun
binyág (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜈ᜔ᜌᜄ᜔)
- (Christianity) baptism
- Synonyms: bawtismo, pagbibinyag
- (Islam, obsolete) wetting with a specific wash [16th–17th c.]
Derived terms
- binyagan
- Binyagan
- buminyag
- mabinyagan
- magbinyag
- magpabinyag
- maminyagan
- ninang sa binyag
- ninong sa binyag
- pabinyagan
- pagbibinyag
Descendants
- → Tausug: binyag
See also
Further reading
- “binyag”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
- “binyag”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.[1] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.[2] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag.
- page 102: “Baptiſmo) Binyag (pc) rejeneraçion eſpiritual”
- page 106: “Bautiſmo) Binyag (pc) rrejeneraçion eſpiritual”
- page 427: “Mojar) Binyag (pc) con cierto lauatorio. Eſte bocablo no es Tagalo ſino Burney, q̃ venia vn Miniſtro de aquella tierra a eſta a enſeñar la ley de Mahoma, y enſabiẽdola les hacia çierto lauatorio y llamauan le binyag, y alos tales mang̃a binyagan. I. los purificados [y renouados] en ley”
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buniag”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI