把拉

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (把拉)		把	拉
anagram		拉把

Etymology

Plausibly from either:

• Spanish paga (“payment; to pay”), from Spanish pagar (“to pay”), which was frequently used as the main definition in 1½ of the pages for the Hokkien term for "to pay", attested and translated in Spanish in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642). The Chinese community of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era used to speak a sort of Spanish pidgin variety known as "Caló Chino Español" and "La Lengua del Parian" (in Spanish) or "Kastilang tindahan" (in Tagalog).
• Tagalog pala (“recompense; consequence; payment taken from someone”), attested in the Vocabulario de la lengua tagala (1860), although the glottal stop at the end IPA: /pɐˈlaʔ/ denotes it as less likely.

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pá-lâ

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pá-lâ
    • Tâi-lô: pá-lâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: paflaa
    • IPA (Philippines): /pa⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ la²⁴/

Verb

把拉

1. (Philippine Hokkien) to pay (in person)

Synonyms

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• 予鐳 / 予镭 (Hokkien)
• 交付 (jiāofù)
• 付 (fù)
• 付出 (fùchū)
• 付款 (fùkuǎn)
• 付鈔票 / 付钞票 (Wu)
• 付錢 / 付钱 (fùqián)
• 出錢 / 出钱 (chūqián)
• 挺分 (⁵thin-fen) (Shanghainese, slang)
• 挺張 / 挺张 (⁵thin-tsan) (Wu)
• 掏腰包 (tāo yāobāo) (to pay out of one's own pocket)
• 支付 (zhīfù)
• 支出 (zhīchū)
• 畀錢 / 畀钱 (bei² cin^4-2) (Cantonese)
• 繳 / 缴
• 自掏腰包 (zì tāo yāobāo) (to pay out of one's own pocket)
• 還錢 / 还钱 (huánqián) (Malaysia, Singapore)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 付 (“to pay”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		付
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	付
	Malaysia	還, 付
	Singapore	還, 付
Southwestern Mandarin	Guilin	付
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	付
Cantonese	Guangzhou	畀
	Hong Kong	畀
	Singapore (Guangfu)	畀
Gan	Nanchang	付
Hakka	Kuching (Hepo)	還
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	付
Southern Min	Tainan	付
	Penang (Hokkien)	予
	Singapore (Hokkien)	還
	Manila (Hokkien)	把拉, 還 obsolete
Wu	Shanghai	付

Antonyms

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• 收入 (shōurù)