karayom

Borrowed from Kapampangan karayum, from Proto-Philippine *daʀum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zaʀum, from Proto-Austronesian *zaʀum.

karayom

1. needle

• carayom — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• krayom

Borrowed from Kapampangan karayum, from Proto-Philippine *daʀum, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zaʀum, from Proto-Austronesian *zaʀum. Compare Ilocano dagum, Cebuano dagom, Maranao ragom, Maguindanao ragum, Tausug jawm, Balinese jaum, and Malay jarum. See also paraluman.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾajom/ [kɐˈɾaː.jom]
• Rhymes: -ajom
• Syllabification: ka‧ra‧yom

karayom (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜇᜌᜓᜋ᜔)

1. needle

   Synonyms: aguha, (obsolete) panulam

• paraluman

• “karayom”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• “karayom”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2026.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[1] (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 35: “Aguja) Carayom [(pp)] de coſer [hordinariamẽte]”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*zaRum”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI