"kuya" meaning in Tagalog

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkuja/, [ˈku.jɐ] Forms: ᜃᜓᜌ [Baybayin]
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 哥仔 (*ko-iá) as per Chan-Yap (1980) and Manuel (1948) with an older obsolete form of the diminutive suffix as a weak form of 囝 (kiáⁿ, káⁿ). Cognate with Cebuano kuya and Kapampangan koya. Compare guya and piaya. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|tl|nan-hbl|哥仔|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=*ko-iá|ts=}} Hokkien 哥仔 (*ko-iá), {{bor+|tl|nan-hbl|哥仔|tr=*ko-iá}} Borrowed from Hokkien 哥仔 (*ko-iá), {{zh-l|囝|tr=kiáⁿ, káⁿ}} 囝 (kiáⁿ, káⁿ), {{cog|ceb|kuya}} Cebuano kuya, {{cog|pam|koya}} Kapampangan koya, {{m|tl|guya}} guya, {{m|tl|piaya}} piaya Head templates: {{tl-noun|b=+}} kuya (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜌ)
  1. elder brother; big brother Categories (topical): Family Synonyms: kuyang
    Sense id: en-kuya-tl-noun-scZA~7j8 Disambiguation of Family: 92 0 0 8 0 Categories (other): Tagalog entries with incorrect language header, Tagalog terms with Baybayin script, Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries Disambiguation of Tagalog entries with incorrect language header: 12 42 44 2 1 Disambiguation of Tagalog terms with Baybayin script: 21 38 38 2 1 Disambiguation of Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries: 22 37 37 2 1
  2. (informal) term of address for a male senior (in school, work, etc.) Tags: informal Synonyms: kuyang
    Sense id: en-kuya-tl-noun-pecjaIXZ Categories (other): Tagalog entries with incorrect language header, Tagalog terms with Baybayin script, Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries Disambiguation of Tagalog entries with incorrect language header: 12 42 44 2 1 Disambiguation of Tagalog terms with Baybayin script: 21 38 38 2 1 Disambiguation of Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries: 22 37 37 2 1
  3. (informal) term of address for any young male: mister; bro Tags: informal Synonyms: kuyang, kuys [slang]
    Sense id: en-kuya-tl-noun-TYzFGRb7 Categories (other): Tagalog entries with incorrect language header, Tagalog terms with Baybayin script, Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries Disambiguation of Tagalog entries with incorrect language header: 12 42 44 2 1 Disambiguation of Tagalog terms with Baybayin script: 21 38 38 2 1 Disambiguation of Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries: 22 37 37 2 1
  4. (Bulacan, informal) eldest male cousin Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-kuya-tl-noun-tiq4MlzH Categories (other): Bulacan Tagalog
  5. (Laguna, Quezon, informal) uncle Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-kuya-tl-noun-MQfqAwGi Categories (other): Quezon Tagalog
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: coya, cuya [obsolete], Spanish-based orthography, koya [colloquial] Derived forms: kuyang, kuys, magkuya Related terms: ahiya, diko, sangko, siko, kaka, mama, manong Coordinate_terms: ate

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Tagalog dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.