tanglad

• tangad

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taŋəlaj, from Proto-Austronesian *Caŋəlaj (“elephant grass, miscanthus grass: Themeda gigantea”). Compare Aklanon tangead and Central Bikol and Tagalog tanglad.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaŋlad/ [ˈt̪aŋ.l̪ɐd̪]
• Hyphenation: tang‧lad

tánglad (Badlit spelling ᜆᜅ᜔ᜎᜇ᜔)

1. lemongrass; one of various species of grass of the genus Cymbopogon, especially Cymbopogon citratus, which have a lemon-like taste and aroma, and are used in cooking, for tea, and for fragrance

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:tanglad.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taŋəlaj, from Proto-Austronesian *Caŋəlaj (“elephant grass, miscanthus grass: Themeda gigantea”). Compare Aklanon tangead and Cebuano and Tagalog tanglad.

• IPA^(key): /taŋˈlad/ [tan̪ˈl̪ad̪]
• Hyphenation: tang‧lad

tanglád (Basahan spelling ᜆᜅ᜔ᜎᜇ᜔)

1. lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus)

• tanlad — superseded, pre-1977

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taŋəlaj, from Proto-Austronesian *Caŋəlaj (“elephant grass, miscanthus grass: Themeda gigantea”). Compare Central Bikol tanglad, Aklanon tangead, and Cebuano tanglad.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taŋˈlad/ [t̪ɐn̪ˈlad̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: tang‧lad

tanglád (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜅ᜔ᜎᜇ᜔)

1. lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus)

   Synonyms: salay, nugo

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