salabay

• Hyphenation: sa‧la‧bay
• IPA^(key): /saˈlabaj/ [s̪ɐˈl̪a.bɐɪ̯]

salabay (Badlit spelling ᜐᜎᜊᜌ᜔)

1. a man-of-war; a Portuguese man-of-war
2. (by extension) a jellyfish

   Synonym: bukya

• Andrew Frank Gallman, Proto East Mindanao and Its Internal Relationships (1997)

• IPA^(key): /saˈlabaj/ [saˈl̪a.baɪ̯]

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• Hyphenation: sa‧la‧bay

salábay (Basahan spelling ᜐᜎᜊᜌ᜔)

1. a man-of-war; a Portuguese man-of-war
2. (by extension) a jellyfish

   Synonym: palit

Compare Kapampangan salabe and Tausug sābay.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈlabaj/ [sɐˈlaː.baɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -abaj
• Syllabification: sa‧la‧bay

salabay (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎᜊᜌ᜔)

1. jellyfish

   Synonyms: dikya, likya, labok-labok

2. (obsolete) crossing of one's arms while drinking

• The word salabay refers to a larger jellyfish than a dikya.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /salaˈbaj/ [sɐ.lɐˈbaɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Syllabification: sa‧la‧bay

salabáy (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎᜊᜌ᜔) (obsolete)

1. object resembling a fish

• “salabay”, 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 34: “Aguas) Salabay (pp) de [la mar] que llaman muertas”