Where does “manlaban” come from?
manlaban (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog laban, from Tagalog labhan, from Tagalog laba, from English lava, from Italian lava, from Neapolitan lava, from Latin lābēs, from Latin lābor — fox.
manlaban (Tagalog): to oppose; to resist
Definitions
- to oppose; to resist
Ancestry of “manlaban”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | laban | fight; quarrel; match; contest; game; a going... |
| 2 | Tagalog | labhan | to wash clothes; to launder |
| 3 | Tagalog | laba | washing of clothes; laundering; laundry |
| 4 | English | lava | The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its... |
| 5 | Italian | lava | third-person singular present indicative of... |
| 6 | Neapolitan | lava | a torrent of rain which washed the streets |
| 7 | Latin | lābēs | fall, collapse |
| 8 | Latin | lābor | work |
| 9 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 10 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 11 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 12 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 13 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |