Where does “kahab-an” come from?

kahab-an (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog kahabaan, from Tagalog Haba, from Spanish Java — Java programming language.

kahab-an (Tagalog): girder

Definitions

  1. girder

Ancestry of “kahab-an”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogkahabaanlengthiness; length
2TagalogHabalength; lengthiness
3SpanishJavaJava programming language
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