Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ang‧kas
Noun
angkas
- the person riding in the pillion
Verb
angkas
- (horse, cattle, motorcycling, cycling, moped) to ride pillion
- to hitch a ride
- to take someone for a ride
Ilocano
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Spanish ancas, plural of anca (“haunch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
angkás
Derived terms
Tagalog
Alternative forms
Etymology
Possibly from the following:
- Borrowed from Spanish ancas, plural of anca (“haunch”), with a stress shift due to having a closed penultimate syllable.
- Inherited from Proto-Philippine *aŋkás.
Compare Aklanon angkas, Tausug angkas, and Chamorro ångkas.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔaŋˈkas/ [ʔɐŋˈk̠as]
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: ang‧kas
Adjective
angkás (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜅ᜔ᜃᜐ᜔)
- riding together on the same vehicle or horseback (mostly vehicles where one needs to straddle)
- Synonym: (dialectal) suno
Derived terms
See also
Noun
angkás (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜅ᜔ᜃᜐ᜔)
- ride together on the same vehicle or horseback (mostly vehicles where one needs to straddle)
- people riding in this manner
Further reading
- “angkas”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
- “angkas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
- Serrano Laktaw, Pedro (1914), Diccionario tagálog-hispano (overall work in Tagalog and Spanish), Intramuros, Manila: Ateneo de Manila., page 40
- 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