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

• pingqui — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• pinki — obsolete

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

• panting
• piki
• pingkil
• pungkol

Further reading

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