palagi
See also: pālagi
English
editEtymology
editFrom Samoan pālagi, variant of papālagi (“white person, European”). Compare earlier papalagi.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpalagi (plural palagis or palagi)
- (Western Polynesia, New Zealand) A white person; a Caucasian.
- 1979, Albert Wendt, Leaves of the Banyan Tree:
- ‘Serves him right for trying to act like a palagi!’ she muttered to herself.
- 1994, Jerome Gold, Hurricanes:
- Then Ione said: "Jerry, you are the only honest palagi I ever met."
- 2010 October 10, Oscar Kightley, New Zealand Herald:
- After 170 years this is the closest Auckland has come to having a brown mayor. Sure he's a Palagi. But his name is Brown, he's run Manukau for a long time and there's heaps of brown people there so he's gladly owned by many in the Pacific Community.
Synonyms
editItalian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editpalagi m
Anagrams
editTagalog
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /paˈlaɡiʔ/ [pɐˈlaː.ɣɪʔ]
- Rhymes: -aɡiʔ
- Syllabification: pa‧la‧gi
Adverb
editpalagì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜄᜒ)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “palagi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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