Ever heard of haynayan (biology), karumalan (menstrual period), or panghibayo (amplifier)? If you haven’t heard of these words, then welcome to the club! Indeed, we can be strangers even to our own language. Here are another 15 Filipino words and NEOLOGISMS (i.e. recently invented) that you might want to share with your friends and office mates:

Ever heard of haynayan (biology), karumalan (menstrual period), or panghibayo (amplifier)? If you haven’t, then welcome to the club! Indeed, we can be strangers even to our own language. Here are another 10 Filipino words and neologisms (i.e. recently invented) to add to your vocabulary. Pook-sapot. English translation: Website.

Us Millenials and Generation Z are not very aware of our own language’ translation of different colonial terms but I’m going to list down 10 Atypical Rare Filipino Words You Didn’t Know Existed Before. Here’s the list: Definition: The contractile aperture in the iris of the eye.

Some say there are 111 of them, while others say there are up to 187! That said, it’s only natural for you to run into Filipino words with no English equivalent from time to time. But don’t you worry. In this entry, we’ll introduce you to over a dozen untranslatable Filipino words.

We’ve compiled thirty such words. While they’ll make sense to Pinoys and baffle foreigners, they’re entertaining just the same. So brush up on your lolo and lola’s vocabulary (as most of these words found use during their era) and get your henyo caps on; we’re exploring untranslatable Filipino words. Bangungot