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Filipino proverbs or Philippine proverbs [1] are traditional sayings or maxims used by Filipinos based on local culture, wisdom, and philosophies from Filipino life.The word Sawikain proverb corresponds to the Tagalog words salawikain, [2] [3] kasabihan [2] (saying) and sawikain [3] (although the latter may also refer to mottos or idioms), and to the Ilocano word sarsarita.
[1] The show was originally aired weekly on GMA Network from February 4, 2007 to August 12, 2007 with the total of twenty-six episodes. It was also aired in GMA Pinoy TV from 2007 to 2008. The show won Best Children's Program in 2007 Catholic Mass Media Awards. [2] [3]
Alejandro G. Abadilla (March 10, 1906 – August 26, 1969), commonly known as AGA, was a Filipino poet, essayist, and fiction writer.Critic Pedro Ricarte referred to Abadilla as the father of modern Philippine poetry, and was known for challenging established forms and literature's "excessive romanticism and emphasis on rhyme and meter". [1]
Utang na loob (Bisayan: utang kabubut-un) is a Filipino cultural trait which, when translated literally, means "a debt of one's inner self ()." [1]Charles Kaut translated the term in 1961 as a "debt of gratitude," [2] [3] while Tomas Andres took his cue from Kaut when he translated it in 1994 as "reciprocity," [3] but Virgilio Enriquez suggests a more accurate translation in combining the ...
Ang lahát ng tao'y isinilang na malayà at pantáy-pantáy sa karangalan at mga karapatán. Sila'y pinagkalooban ng katuwiran at budhî at dapat magpalagayan ang isá't isá sa diwà ng pagkákapatíran. English. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
"Sa Aking Mga Kabatà" (English: To My Fellow Youth) is a poem about the love of one's native language written in Tagalog. It is widely attributed to the Filipino national hero José Rizal , who supposedly wrote it in 1868 at the age of eight. [ 1 ]
The song was first performed in Bonifacio's camp in Balara in November 1896. [1] The form chosen by Nakpil, the dalit, was traditionally a sung prayer or supplication. [2] [3] Later, Nakpil sent a copy of the Himno Nacional to Bonifacio, who was then in Cavite, together with a letter to him dated January 30, 1897. Bonifacio acknowledged this in ...
Biag ni Lam-ang (lit. ' The Life of Lam-ang ') is an epic story of the Ilocano people from the Ilocos region of the Philippines.It is notable for being the first Philippine folk epic to be recorded in written form, and was one of only two folk epics documented during the Philippines' Spanish Colonial period, along with the Bicolano epic of Handiong.