kulay

See also:Kulay

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• colay,culay—obsolete,Spanish-based orthography

Etymology

Ultimately fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*kuray(“veining pattern on wood or other material”).CompareKapampangankule(“color”),Maranaokoray(“patterns or whorl of grains in wood”),andMalaykurai(“veining; strip-marking on kris blades”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈkulaj/[ˈkuː.laɪ̯]
• Rhymes:-ulaj
• Syllabification:ku‧lay

Noun

kulay(Baybayin spellingᜃᜓᜎᜌ᜔)

1. color

   Synonym:kolor

2. (figuratively)character;nature

   Synonym:ugali

   tunay nakulay―truecharacter(literally, “true colours”)

3. (by extension)race;nationality

   Synonyms:lahi,lipi

4. (military)color(standard or banner)

   pagpasok ng mgakulay―entrance ofcolors

5. (obsolete)multicoloredlinesonclothesorstones
6. (obsolete)lineson aknife
7. (obsolete)actofdividingtheironfromsteel

Derived terms

• awankulayin
• awankulaying paningob
• damkulayin
• duhangkulayin
• ipangkulay
• kakulay
• kulay-abo
• kulay-apoy
• kulay-dayap
• kulay-dugo
• kulay-gatas
• kulay-langit
• kulay-lumot
• kulay-pilak
• kulay-pulot
• kulay-talong
• kulay-tayom
• kulayan
• kulayin
• kulaying baltik
• kulaylawas
• kulayputol
• kulaysukat
• kumulay
• magkapunong kulay
• magkulay
• makulay
• maykulay
• pagkulay
• pangkulay
• pangulay
• pangunahing kulay
• sangkulayin

See also

• walna

Further reading

• “kulay”,inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph,Manila,2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor,Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1],La Noble Villa de Pila, page513:“Raya) Colay (pp) en el cuchillo la junta del hierro y açero”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kuray”,in the CLDF dataset fromThe Austronesian Comparative Dictionary(2010–),→DOI