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UNCOMMONLY USED FILIPINO WORDS

Sambat

English translation: Fork

Sentence Example: Mas madaling kumain kung may hawak na Sambat.

Definition: A common tool used in eating that usually has three or four stiff metal points attached to a handle.

Dupil

English translation: Amulet

Sentence Example: Ginamit ni Ana ang dupil upang maligtas ang kaniyang Sarili sa kapahamakan.

Definition: It is an amulet, or anything that is believed to have the power to save the person who owns it from any harm. The more popular Tagalog words currently being used are anting-anting and agimat.

Duyog

English translation: Eclipse

Sentence Example: Marami ang namamangha sa duyog.

Definition: An occasion when the sun looks like it is completely or partially covered with a dark circle because the moon is between the sun and the Earth.

Pangaso 

English translation: Toothbrush

Definition: A brush for cleaning the teeth 

Pook-sapot

English translation: Website

Definition: A group of World Wide Web pages usually containing hyperlinks to each other and made available online by an individual, company, educational institution, government, or organization.

Salipawpaw

English translation: Airplane

Definition: A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings from which it derives most of its lift

Hatinig

English translation: Telephone

Definition: An instrument for reproducing sounds at a distance specifically : one in which sound is converted into electrical impulses for transmission, as by wire or radio wave.

Paraluman

English translation: Compass

Definition: A device for determining directions by means of a magnetic needle or group of needles turning freely on a pivot and pointing to the magnetic north.

Kagaw

English translation: Germs

Definition: A microorganism causing disease : a pathogenic agent, such as a bacterium or virus.

Awanggan

English translation: Infinity

Definition: The quality of being infinite: unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity.