sipnayan

Blend of Cebuano isip (“thinking; consideration; counting; enumeration”) + Tagalog hanayan. See also Cebuano ihap (“count”), Hiligaynon isip (“number; count”), and Maranao isip (“number; count”).

Coined by Lupon sa Agham (Committee on Science) in the Maugnaying Talasalitaang Pang-agham : Ingles-Pilipino (Correlative Word List for Sciences : English-Filipino), published in 1969 and edited by Gonsalo del Rosario. This term fell under the Kublupon sa Sipnayan (Subcommittee on Mathematics), headed by Manuel M. Maravilla.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /sipˈnajan/ [sɪpˈn̪aː.jɐn̪]

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• Rhymes: -ajan
• Syllabification: sip‧na‧yan

sipnayan (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜉ᜔ᜈᜌᜈ᜔) (neologism)

1. mathematics

   Synonyms: matematika, agbilang, aghambilang

• Lupon sa Agham (1969), “Sipnayan (Mathematics)”, in Gonsalo del Rosario, editor, Maugnaying Talasalitaang Pang-agham : Ingles-Pilipino [Correlative Word List for Sciences : English-Filipino] (overall work in English and Tagalog), Manila: National Book Store, Inc., →LCCN, →OL, page 56