Filipina

Borrowed from Spanish filipina f (feminine form of filipino).

• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /filiˈpinɐ/
• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /fɪlɪˈpiːnə/

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Filipina (plural Filipinas)

1. (countable) A female citizen or local inhabitant of the Philippines, or one descending from such.

   Synonym: Pinay

   • 2006 [1997 December 16], Shu-Ju Ada Cheng, “The Global Trade in Domestic Service”, in Serving the Household and the Nation: Filipina Domestics and the Politics of Identity in Taiwan‎^[3] (Sociology; Asian Studies), Lexington Books, sourced from United Daily News, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

     Recently, the police station at Nei-Hu district arrested about ten Filipina domestics and nursing workers who ran away from their employers.

   • 2009 April 22, Vina A. Lanzona, Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 31:

     Whether portrayed as masculine warriors, female seducers, or wayward mothers, Huk Amazons were regarded as extraordinary and unconventional Filipinas: communist guerrillas trained to fight as soldiers against the government and women who lived in the forests, fraternized with men, and had children outside marriage.

2. (obsolete, historical, countable) A female Philippine-born person of pure or majority Spanish descent.^[1]

   Synonyms: Spaniard, Spanish

• (female inhabitant): Filipinx, Filipin@
• (female inhabitant): Filipino (male form covering all genders)

Filipina (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to female inhabitants of the Philippines.

• Filipino

• Philippine
• Filipino, Filipin@

• Filipino

Borrowed from Malay Filipina, from Spanish Filipinas.

• IPA^(key): /filipina/

Filipina

1. Philippines (a country in Southeast Asia)

Filipina

1. Filipino

Inherited from Malay Filipina, from Spanish Filipinas, from Felipe (“the name of King Philip II of Spain”) +‎ -inas.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /filiˈpina/ [fi.liˈpi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: Fi‧li‧pi‧na

Filipina

1. Philippines (a country in Southeast Asia)

Borrowed from Spanish Filipinas, from Felipe +‎ -inas.

• IPA^(key): /filiˈpina/ [fi.liˈpi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina, -na, -a

Filipina (Jawi spelling فيليڤينا)

1. Philippines (a country in Southeast Asia)

• Indonesian: Filipina

Borrowed from Spanish filipina, feminine form of filipino.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /filiˈpina/ [fɪ.lɪˈpiː.n̪ɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /piliˈpina/ [pɪ.lɪˈpiː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: Fi‧li‧pi‧na

Filipina (masculine Filipino, Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜉᜒᜈ)

1. (proscribed) alternative form of Pilipina, female equivalent of Filipino: female Filipino; Filipina (person)
2. (historical) female equivalent of Filipino: female Philippine-born person of pure or majority Spanish descent^[1]

• See Filipino.

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• Kastila