ditan

See also: di tản and dìtǎn

Galician

Verb

ditan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of ditar

Pangasinan

Etymology

Compare Central Bikol diyan and Tagalog diyan.

Adverb

ditán

  1. there (far from the speaker, but near the person addressed)

Coordinate terms

Tagalog

Alternative forms

  • digtan — obsolete
  • ditaan
  • dit-an — obsolete

Etymology

From earlier dit-an, syncopic form of ditaan, from dita (“arrow poison”) +‎ -an. The plant was once believed to be a poisonous rattan, and its fruits were regarded as inedible. Compare Ilocano ditaan (“hard rattan”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /diˈtan/ [d̪ɪˈt̪an̪]
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: di‧tan

Noun

ditán (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜆᜈ᜔)

  1. Calamus mollis, a species of rattan with a thorny, reddish stem that usually grows in finger-like shapes
  2. Calamus loherianus

See also

Further reading

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