hipon

Borrowed from Tagalog hipon, from Proto-Philippine *hipun.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhipon/ [ˈhi.pon̪]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔipon/ [ˈʔi.pon̪] (h-dropping)
• Hyphenation: hi‧pon

hípon (Basahan spelling ᜑᜒᜉᜓᜈ᜔) (Tagalog-influenced, Daet)

1. shrimp

   Synonym: pasayan

2. prawn

   Synonym: buyod

From Proto-Philippine *hipun.

• Hyphenation: hi‧pon
• IPA^(key): /ˈhipon/ [ˈhi.pon̪]

hipon

1. krill
2. a condiment paste made of fermented or salted krill
3. a dish of sautéed krill paste with garlic and onions
4. a dish of sautéed krill paste with garlic, onions and sliced Averrhoa bilimbi fruits

• IPA^(key): /hi.ˈpon/

hipón

1. (medicine) mucus; head cold

From Proto-Philippine *hípun (“small shrimp”). Compare Cebuano hipun (“tiny shrimp”), Mansaka ipon (“small fish”). The “butterface” sense is from people eating the body of the shrimp and treating the head as undesirable by throwing it away.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈhipon/ [ˈhiː.pon̪]
• Rhymes: -ipon
• Syllabification: hi‧pon

hipon (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜉᜓᜈ᜔)

1. shrimp; prawn
2. (figurative, slang, derogatory) butterface; prawn; shrimp (person with an attractive body but an unattractive face)

• “hipon”, in Pambansang 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, page 138: “Camarones) Hipon (pp) muý pequeñitos, cojen los en garlitos q̃ ponen ẽ los cañales de los rios”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*hípun₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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