Uncommonly used Filipino words

Nowadays, We Filipinos commonly used modern words or English and forgot to use our Native Language. Most of us doesn’t know the translation or the definition of the uncommonly used Filipino Words. We Filipinos should start learning and familiarize ourselves in our own language.

HERE ARE THE 10 UNCOMMONLY USED FILIPINO WORDS

UNCOMMONLY USED FILIPINO WORD: ANLUWAGE

MEANING: A worker who builds or repairs wooden structures or their structural parts.

ENGLISH: Carpenter

EXAMPLE: The carpenter brought his tools along.

UNCOMMONLY USED FILIPINO WORD: AWANGGAN

MEANING: Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity.

ENGLISH: Infinity

EXAMPLE : I bought the Valentine’s Day card because it said “I love you to infinity and back,” which is more than forever.

UNCOMMONLY USED FILIPINO WORD: BALINTATAW

MEANING: The contractile aperture in the iris of the eye.

ENGLISH: Infinity

EXAMPLE: His pupils were contracted by the bright sunlight and his light green eyes contrasted sharply with his bronze tan.EXAMPLE:

UNCOMMONLY USED FILIPINO WORD:BALINTUNA

MEANING: Of such a superlative degree as to be hard to believe.

ENGLISH: PUPIL(EYES)

EXAMPLE: His pupils were contracted by the bright sunlight and his light green eyes contrasted sharply with his bronze tan.

UNCOMMONLY USED FILIPINO WORD:BILNURAN

MEANING: 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.

ENGLISH: ARITHMETIC

EXAMPLE: It was a long time before decimal arithmetic came into general use, and all through the 17th century exponential marks were in common use.

UNCOMMONLY USED FILIPINO WORD: DURUNGAWAN

MEANING: An opening especially in the wall of a building for admission of light and air that is usually closed by casements or sashes containing transparent material (such as glass) and capable of being opened and shut.

ENGLISH: Window

EXAMPLE: When they finally got on the plane, she and Jonathan had a window seat – Jonathan in front of her.

UNCOMMONLY USED FILIPINO WORD: DUYOG

MEANING: The total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another.

ENGLISH: ECLIPSE

EXAMPLE:The happy coincidence of a lunar eclipse gives us the 20th of September 331 as the exact day upon which the Macedonian army crossed the Tigris.