Glossary - Page 3 of 4
(English version of “El Filibusterismo”)
- panguinguera
- A woman addicted to panguingui, this being chiefly a feminine diversion in the Philippines.
- pansit
- A soup made of Chinese vermicelli.
- pansitería
- A shop where pansit is prepared and sold.
- pañuelo
- A starched neckerchief folded stiffly over the shoulders, fastened in front and falling in a point behind: the most distinctive portion of the customary dress of Filipino women.
- peso
- A silver coin, either the Spanish peso or the Mexican dollar, about the size of an American dollar and of approximately half its value.
- petate
- Sleeping-mat woven from palm leaves.
- piña
- Fine cloth made from pineapple-leaf fibers.
- Provincial
- The head of a religious order in the Philippines.
- puñales
Daggers!
- querida
- A paramour, mistress: from the Spanish
beloved.
- real
- One-eighth of a peso, twenty cuartos.
- sala
- The principal room in the more pretentious Philippine houses.
- salakot
- Wide hat of palm or bamboo, distinctively Filipino.
- sampaguita
- The Arabian jasmine: a small, white, very fragrant flower, extensively cultivated, and worn in chaplets and rosaries by women and girls—the typical Philippine flower.
- sipa
- A game played with a hollow ball of plaited bamboo or rattan, by boys standing in a circle, who by kicking it with their heels endeavor to keep it from striking the ground.
- soltada
- A bout between fighting-cocks.
- ’Susmariosep
- A common exclamation: contraction of the Spanish, Jesús, María, y José, the Holy Family.
- tabi
- The cry used by carriage drivers to warn pedestrians.
- tabú
- A utensil fashioned from half of a coconut shell.
- tajú
- A thick beverage prepared from bean-meal and syrup.
- tampipi
- A telescopic basket of woven palm, bamboo, or rattan.
- Tandang
- A title of respect for an old man: from the Tagalog term for
old.
