Sentence examples for a tagalog from inspiring English sources

Manila gets its name from manilad, a Tagalog word meaning place where there are no nilads.

Barok is a Tagalog slang word referring to a strange or crazy person.

They often called Emma and asked her to "take care of my lolo," a Tagalog term for "grandfather".

She often repeated a Tagalog expression: "If the ganta" — a box for measuring grain — "is full of rice, then you can talk back.

Most recently, the team developed a Tagalog survey instrument through extensive focus groups and piloting, and as of mid-September 201,500,500 households have been surveyed.

On one recent evening, at the table closest to the karaoke machine, Edwin Lancaderas, 62, crooned a Tagalog song, "Fight Temptation" — about a married man forgoing an affair with a woman while taking delight in their "stolen moments".

The child will benefit from early Tagalog support from outside the home (e.g. in a Tagalog-speaking nursery, with extended family, in community-based programs).

Those who have attended a Catholic service know that the structure is typically the same no matter where you are in the world, but it was particularly fascinating to attend a service in Tagalog, a predominant language in the Philippines.

It then became a province of the Maharajanate of Majapahit and was called by its Sanskrit title, "षेलुरोन्ग्" (Selurong) before it was invaded by Brunei's Sultan Bolkiah and renamed كوتا سلودونڠ (Kota Saludong) or simply Maynilà, from the word "Maynilad", a native Tagalog term indicating the presence of Nila, a flowering mangrove plant once abundant in the area.

Veloso, 30, a single mother, has always pleaded innocent to drug smuggling charges but was not able to properly defend herself at trial, where she did not have a qualified Tagalog translator.

Speaking a little Tagalog and Vietnamese might help.