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hipon
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Etymology
Borrowed from Tagalog hipon, from Proto-Philippine *hipun.
Pronunciation
Noun
hípon (Basahan spelling ᜑᜒᜉᜓᜈ᜔) (Tagalog-influenced, Daet)
Cebuano
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *hipun.
Pronunciation
Noun
hipon
- krill
- a condiment paste made of fermented or salted krill
- a dish of sautéed krill paste with garlic and onions
- a dish of sautéed krill paste with garlic, onions and sliced Averrhoa bilimbi fruits
Dupaningan Agta
Pronunciation
Noun
hipón
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *hípun (“small shrimp”). Compare Cebuano hipun (“tiny shrimp”) and Mansaka ipon (“small fish”). See also Central Dusun tipun (“shrimp”). The “butterface” sense is from people eating the body of the shrimp and treating the head as undesirable by throwing it away. Compare Spanish gamba (“shrimp; butterface”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈhipon/ [ˈhiː.pon̪]
- Rhymes: -ipon
- Syllabification: hi‧pon
Noun
hipon (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜉᜓᜈ᜔)
- shrimp; prawn
- (figurative, slang, derogatory) butterface; prawn; shrimp (person with an attractive body but an unattractive face)
- Synonym: tapon-ulo
Derived terms
- hipong bulik
- hipong prito
- hipong puti
- hipong rebusado
- hipong-alat
- hipong-himay
- hipong-ilog
- hipong-laot
- hipong-tabang
- hipong-tuyo
- maghihipon
- maghipon
- mahipon
- manghipon
- palahipunan
See also
Further reading
- “hipon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte. (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 138: “Camarones) Hipon (pp) muý pequeñitos, cojen los en garlitos q̃ ponen ẽ los cañales de los rios”
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*hípun₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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