UNCOMMON FILIPINO WORDS

“POOK-SAPOT”

Filipino word: Pook-sapot

English translation: Website

Definition: A place on the World Wide Web that contains information about a person, organization, etc., and that usually consists of many Web pages joined by hyperlinks.

“BILNURAN”

Filipino word: Bilnuran

English translation: Arithmetic

Definition: A branch of mathematics that deals usually with the nonnegative real numbers including sometimes the transfinite cardinals and with the application of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to them.

“ANLUWAGE”

Filipino word: Anluwage

English translation: Carpenter

Definition: A person whose job is to make or fix wooden objects or wooden parts of buildings.

“INITSIGAN”

Filipino word: Initsigan

English translation: Thermodynamics

Definition: A science that deals with the action of heat and related forms of energy.

“DUYOG”

Filipino word: Duyog

English translation: Eclipse

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.

“PANGINAIN”

word: Panginain

English translation: Browser

Definition: A computer program that is used to find and look at information on the Internet.

“YAKIS”

Filipino word: Yakis

English translation: “To sharpen”

Definition: To make (something) sharp or sharper.

“SULATRONIKO”

Filipino word: Sulatroniko

English translation: E-mail

Definition: A system for sending messages from one computer to another computer.

“MIKTINIG”

Filipino word: Miktinig

English translation: Microphone

Description: An instrument whereby sound waves are caused to generate or modulate an electric current usually for the purpose of transmitting or recording sound (as speech or music).

“PANG-ULONG HATINIG”

Filipino word: Pang-ulong hatinig

English translation: Headset

Definition: A device that holds an earphone and a microphone in place on a person’s head.