Where does “kahabaan” come from?

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

kahabaan (Tagalog): lengthiness; length

Definitions

  1. lengthiness; length

Ancestry of “kahabaan”, step by step

kahabaan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog Haba

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TagalogHabalength; lengthiness
2SpanishJavaJava programming language

via Tagalog ka- -an

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogka- -anused to form abstract nouns
2Proto-Austronesian*ka- -an—

Words derived from “kahabaan”

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