tsang

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaŋ/ [ˈt͡ʃaŋ]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈtsaŋ/ [ˈt͡saŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: tsang

Etymology 1

See tsong.

Noun

tsang (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜅ᜔) (slang)

1. female equivalent of tsong: female friend

   Synonym: mare

Alternative forms

• chang

Etymology 2

From tiya +‎ -ng.

Noun

tsang (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜅ᜔) (slang)

1. female equivalent of tsong: aunt; auntie

   Synonyms: tiya, tita, tiyang, tiyahin, ale, inain

Alternative forms

• tiyang, tyang, chang

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Hokkien 蔥 / 葱 (chhang, “green onion; spring onion; scallion”). Compare Kapampangan sang.

Noun

tsang (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜅ᜔) (now dialectal, Cavite)

1. spring onion

   Synonyms: sibuyas na mura, sibuyas-dahon, sibuyas, lasuna

Alternative forms

• chang
• sang

Further reading

• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎ (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.: “Nardo. Sibuyas. pp. sang. pc. lasoná. pc.”
• Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum‎ (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642; republished as Fabio Yuchung Lee (李毓中), Chen Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), Regalado Trota José, José Luis Caño Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum‎, Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN

Further reading

• Zorc, R. David; San Miguel, Rachel (1993), Tagalog Slang Dictionary, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN, page 29