pingki

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ping‧ki

Adjective

pingki

  1. knock-kneed
    1. (of the legs) having the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart
    2. (of a person or animal) suffering from genu valgum (or tibia valga)

Verb

pingki

  1. to clink; to make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *piŋkíq (“strike two hard objects together to produce a spark”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /piŋˈkiʔ/ [pɪŋˈkɪʔ]
  • Rhymes: -iʔ
  • Syllabification: ping‧ki

Noun

pingkî (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜅ᜔ᜃᜒ)

  1. striking a flash or fire by friction between two hard objects
  2. (figurative) collision; clash

Derived terms

  • ipingki
  • magpingki
  • mapingki
  • pagpingki
  • pagpingkiin
  • pamingki
  • pingkian

See also

Further reading

  • “pingki”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*piŋkíq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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