“Meat” in every Philippine language
Meat across 9 languages, and what the differences tell you.
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Side by side
| Language | Meat |
|---|---|
| English | Meat |
| Tagalog | Karne |
| Ilocano | Karne |
| Cebuano | Karne |
| Hiligaynon | Karne |
| Waray | Karne |
| Bikol | Karne |
| Kapampangan | Karne |
| Pangasinan | Karne |
What the pattern shows
Karne in all eight without a single spelling change. That is unusual for a loan on this list — most leave at least one language holding its own word, and meat left none.
Where they agree
- Karne — Tagalog, Ilocano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Bikol, Kapampangan, Pangasinan
In a phrase
From the Ilocano to Tagalog phrasebook, where every row was checked against published references:
Chicken
Ilocano Karne ti manok
Tagalog Manok
Pork
Ilocano Karne ti baboy
Tagalog Baboy
Beef
Ilocano Karne ti baka
Tagalog Baka
More food & eating
The whole category as a word list: Ilocano Food and Eating Words · Tagalog Food and Eating Words
Where this comes from
This row is one of 161 concept pages drawn from a parallel set of everyday vocabulary held across nine languages. You can browse all of them, download the whole set under CC BY-SA 4.0, or paste text to find out which language it is.
Compiled from published general reference and pending review by native speakers. If something here is wrong in a language you speak, please tell us.