Where does “habang-buhay” come from?

habang-buhay (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog Haba, from Spanish Java — Java programming language.

habang-buhay (Tagalog): lifelong; for life; lifetime

Definitions

  1. lifelong; for life; lifetime

Ancestry of “habang-buhay”, step by step

habang-buhay traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog Haba

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TagalogHabalength; lengthiness
2SpanishJavaJava programming language

via Tagalog buhay

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogbuhaylife; alive

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