kalimbahin

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• calimbahin — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• kalambahin
• kalumbahin
• kalinbagin

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kalimbaˈhin/ [kɐ.lɪm.bɐˈhin̪]
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: ka‧lim‧ba‧hin

Noun

kalimbahín (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒᜋ᜔ᜊᜑᜒᜈ᜔)

1. (botany) coconut (with pinkish color on its borders but the rest of the shell is tan-colored)

   Synonym: niyog

2. (botany, dialectal) common guava (Psidium guajava)

   Synonyms: bayabas, tayabas

3. (botany) lime berry (Micromelum compressum)

   Synonyms: piris, parinlas, binting-dalaga

4. pink; guava pink; reddish color

   Synonym: rosas

   kalimbahin:  

Derived terms

• kalimbahinan
• kalimbahinin
• magkalimbahin

 

Adjective

kalimbahín (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒᜋ᜔ᜊᜑᜒᜈ᜔)

1. pink; reddish

   Synonym: rosas

See also

Colors in Tagalog · kulay (layout · text)

puti	abo, gris	itim
pula; krimson, pulang-pula	kahel; kayumanggi	dilaw; krema
kulay-dayap	lungti, lungtian, berde
turkesa	bughaw-langit, asul	bughaw, asul
lila, biyoleta; nila, tayom	mahenta; ube, morado, haban, purpura	rosas, kalimbahin

References

• “kalimbahin”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 435.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 160: “Coco) Calimbahin ([pc]) tierno es colorado [y amarga] la cascara, no ſe come ſino lo de dentro.”
• Merrill, Elmer Drew (1903) A dictionary of the plant names of the Philippine Islands‎^[3]
• Philippines Bureau of Agriculture (1922) Bulletin‎^[4]