banyaga

From Malay berniaga (“trade”), ultimately from Sanskrit वाणिज्यक (vāṇijyaka, “merchant”), derived from वाणिज (vāṇija, “merchant, trader”), with semantic change to “rascal”. Compare Ilocano baniaga (“trade”), Tagalog banyaga (“foreigner”).

• Hyphenation: ban‧ya‧ga
• IPA^(key): /banˈjaɡaʔ/ [bɐn̪ˈja.ɡɐʔ]

banyagà

1. evil; wicked; mean

banyagà

1. rascal; scoundrel

• bangyaga

Borrowed from Malay berniaga (“trade”), ultimately from Sanskrit वाणिज्यक (vāṇijyaka, “merchant”), derived from वाणिज (vāṇija, “merchant, trader”). Compare Tagalog banyaga (“foreigner”), Ilocano baniaga. Second sense is a semantic loan from Tagalog banyaga.

• IPA^(key): /bənˈjaɡə/ [bənˈjäː.ɡə]
• Hyphenation: ban‧ya‧ga

banyága

1. trade
2. foreigner

• magbanyaga

From Sanskrit वाणिज्यक (vāṇijyaka), derived from वाणिज (vāṇija, “merchant, trader”), possibly via Cebuano banyaga (“wicked”).

banyaga

1. rude; ill-mannered; uncouth; ungentlemanly

• baniaga — obsolete

Borrowed from Malay berniaga (“trade”), ultimately from Sanskrit वाणिज्यक (vāṇijyaka, “merchant”), derived from वाणिज (vāṇija, “merchant, trader”), with semantic shift to “foreigner”. Compare Cebuano banyaga (“rascal”), Ilocano baniaga (“trade”), and Tausug banyaga' (“slave”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /banˈjaɡaʔ/ [bɐˈɲaː.ɣɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -aɡaʔ
• Syllabification: ban‧ya‧ga

banyagà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜈ᜔ᜌᜄ)

1. foreign; alien

banyagà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜈ᜔ᜌᜄ)

1. foreigner; alien

   Synonym: dayuhan

• Wolff, John U. (1976) “Malay borrowings in Tagalog”, in C.D. Cowan & O.W. Wolters, editors, Southeast Asian History and Historiography: Essays Presented to D. G. E. Hall‎^[1], Ithaca: Cornell University Press, page 351
• Chang, T'ien-Tse (1962) “Malacca and the Failure of the first Portuguese Embassy to Peking”, in Journal of Southeast Asian History‎^[2], volume 3, number 2, The National University of Singapore, page 47