bahala

Tagalog

Tagalog numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b] ←  100,000	←  10,000,000 (107)	100,000,000 (108)	1,000,000,000 (109)  →
Cardinal: sandaang angaw, sambahala     Spanish cardinal: siyento milyones     Ordinal: ikasandaang angaw, pansandaang angaw, ikabahala, pangbahala, ikasambahala     Ordinal abbreviation: ika-100000000, pang-100000000     Collective: bahala

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit भार (bhāra, “burden; load; weight”). Compare Kapampangan bala, Cebuano bála / baláha (“to carry something on the back, not tied”), Indonesian bahar, Malay bahara (“weight”), and Javanese ꦧꦫ (bara, “hundred million”). Otherwise, it may also possibly be from Bathala, which was from Sanskrit भट्टार (bhaṭṭāra, “revered, worshipful”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈhalaʔ/ [bɐˈhaː.lɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -alaʔ
• Syllabification: ba‧ha‧la

Noun

bahalà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜑᜎ)

1. responsibility

   Synonym: responsabilidad

2. person responsible

   Synonyms: tagapangasiwa, katiwala, patnugot, tagapangalaga, tagapamahala

3. management; custody; charge

   Synonyms: pangangasiwa, pamamatnubay, pamamatnugot

4. apprehension; presentiment

Derived terms

• bahala ka
• bahala na
• bahalain
• bigay-bahala
• bigyang-bahala
• ibigay-bahala
• ikabahala
• ipabahala
• ipagsawalang-bahala
• kabahala
• kawalang-bahala
• mabahala
• magbigay-bahala
• makabahala
• makapagbigay-bahala
• mamahala
• may bahala
• pabahala
• pabahalaan
• pagbigyang-bahala
• pagkabahala
• pagsasawalang-bahala
• pamahalaan
• pamamahala
• sawalang-bahala
• tagapamahala
• tulakbahala
• walang-bahala

 

See also

• bathala

 

Adjective

bahalà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜑᜎ)

1. answerable; accountable; responsible

Numeral

bahalà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜑᜎ) (obsolete)

1. hundred million

   Synonyms: sandaang milyon, sampung kati

Derived terms

• sambahala

 

Further reading

• “bahala”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[3] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1887) El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog‎^[4] (in Spanish), Paris: Imprimerie de la Faculté de Médecine, A. Davy

Anagrams

• labaha

Ternate

Etymology

Most likely ultimately deriving from Arabic بَلَاء (balāʔ)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌba.ha.ˈlaː/

Noun

bahala

1. disaster

Alternative forms

• bahla, bala

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh