talima

Tagalog

Etymology

Compare Malay terima (“acceptance; acknowledgement”); Tausug tayma' (“accept; receive something”) and Arabic تَعَلَّمَ (taʕallama, “to learn”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈlima/ [t̪ɐˈliː.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: ta‧li‧ma

Noun

talima (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜒᜋ)

1. compliance; obedience (to an order, etc.)

   Synonyms: sunod, pagsunod, pagtupad, pagkumpli, pag-alinsunod

Derived terms

• pagtalima
• talimahin
• tumalima

Further reading

• “talima”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.

Anagrams

• malati