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Ibabà is Filipino for "lower”, Ilaya means "inland" or "interior," and Itaás means "upper." Baseco: Manila Port Area: Acronym for "Bataan Shipping and Engineering Company," owner of the dockyard where the settlement was founded. Batis: San Juan: Filipino term for "rivulet" or "creek" which dominated the area. [8] Bayanihan: Quezon City
The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System [1] (Tagalog: Pangasiwaan ng Tubig at Alkantarilya sa Kalakhang Maynila), [5] formerly known as the National Waterworks and Sewerage System Authority (NAWASA), is the government agency that is in charge of water privatization in Metro Manila and nearby provinces of Cavite and Rizal in the Philippines.
(Original meaning: buying and/or selling in a market or advertising) Middle name — maternal surname or maiden name, in which Filipino full names were patterned from the Spanish & American naming conventions by sorting first the given name then a maternal surname before marriage and lastly, the paternal surname. (Original meaning: second given ...
The Filipino language incorporated Spanish loanwords as a result of 333 years of contact with the Spanish language. In their analysis of José Villa Panganiban's Talahuluganang Pilipino-Ingles (Pilipino-English dictionary), Llamzon and Thorpe (1972) pointed out that 33% of word root entries are of Spanish origin.
Juan Gossaín was born in San Bernardo del Viento, Córdoba Department, Caribbean region of Colombia around 1949 to his parents Juan Gossaín and Berta Abdallah. [7] Gossaín's father and mother had immigrated to Colombia from Lebanon. [1] [7] [8] Gossaín studied at Colegio La Esperanza in Cartagena, a boarding school in Cartagena, from age 9 ...
May EXIST idô dog (a)ko 1SG May idô (a)ko EXIST dog 1SG I have a dog. Hiligaynon linkers When an adjective modifies a noun, the linker nga links the two. Example: Ido nga itom 'black dog' Sometimes, if the linker is preceded by a word that ends in a vowel, glottal stop or the letter N, it becomes acceptable to contract it into -ng, as in Filipino. This is often used to make the words sound ...
A Speck in the Water (Filipino: Nunal Sa Tubig) is a 1976 Philippine drama film written by Jorge Arago and directed by Ishmael Bernal.It tells the story of a love triangle in the impoverished village involving Benjamin (George Estregan), a fisherman in Laguna de Bay, and two women in the villageć¼Chedeng (Daria Ramirez), a soon-to-be midwife, and Maria (Elizabeth Oropesa), a beautiful young ...
In 1995, King Juan Carlos I paid his first official visit to the Philippines. [8] There have been several high-level visits between leaders of both nations. Filipino President Benigno Aquino III with Spanish King Felipe VI in Madrid, 2014. Filipino President Benigno Aquino III with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in Madrid, 2014.