different between tagalog vs mayhap

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ta?alok]

Noun

tagalog m

1. Tagalog (language)

Synonyms

• tagalština

Danish

Noun

tagalog

1. Tagalog, the Tagalog language, native language of the Philippines.

Finnish

Noun

tagalog

1. Tagalog (language)

Declension

French

Noun

tagalog m (uncountable)

1. Tagalog, the Tagalog language, native language of the Philippines.

Further reading

• “tagalog” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Noun

tagalog

1. Tagalog (language)

Portuguese

Noun

tagalog m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of tagalo

English

Etymology

From the phrase “it may hap”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?hæp/

Adverb

mayhap (not comparable)

1. (archaic, rare) maybe, perhaps, possibly, perchance:
   • 1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter VI, [1]

     I'm one that has spoken to a King, I am: mayhap you'll never see such another […]

   • 1895, Fiona Macleod, "The Sin-Eater" in The Sin-Eater, The Washer of the Ford and Other Legendary Moralities, New York: Duffield & Co., p. 12, [2]

     Then I heard the rush, the stamping and neighing, of some young mares, pasturing there, as they raced to and fro, bewildered or mayhap only in play.

   • 1983, Peter De Vries, Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., Chapter 4, p. 50,

     Who would not adore Mom and admire old Ma Pettigrew? There is one of each on your street, the younger mayhap heading for the tribulations already unmurmuringly borne by the older.

Derived terms

• mayhaps

Anagrams

• yampah