angkas

• Hyphenation: ang‧kas

angkas

1. the person riding in the pillion

angkas

1. (horse, cattle, motorcycling, bicycle, moped) to ride pillion
2. to hitch a ride
3. to take someone for a ride

Possibly borrowed from Spanish ancas, plural of anca (“haunch”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaŋˈkas/ [ʔɐŋˈkas]
• Hyphenation: ang‧kas

angkás

1. haunch of a horse
2. croup; load

• yangkas

• ankas — dated

Possibly borrowed from Spanish ancas, plural of anca (“haunch”), or inherited from Proto-Philippine *aŋkás. Compare Aklanon angkas and Tausug angkas.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaŋˈkas/ [ʔɐŋˈkas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: ang‧kas

angkás (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜅ᜔ᜃᜐ᜔)

1. riding together on the same vehicle or horseback (mostly vehicles where one needs to straddle)

   Synonym: (dialectal) suno

angkás (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜅ᜔ᜃᜐ᜔)

1. ride together on the same vehicle or horseback (mostly vehicles where one needs to straddle)
2. people riding in this manner

• “angkas” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[1], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “angkas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, David Paul (1979–1983) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 1, page 18
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 33
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*aŋkás”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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