bagal

From Old Norse bagall, from Old Irish bachall (or perhaps from Old English), from Latin baculum (“staff”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeːal/

bagal m (genitive singular bagals, plural baglar)

1. crosier

• (crosier): biskupsstavur

From Malay baghal, bagal, from Classical Malay بغل (baghal), بغل (bagal), from Arabic بَغَل (baḡal).

bagal (plural bagal-bagal)

1. mule

• baghal (Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore)

• “bagal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bagal (“overgrown, clumsy, sluggish”). Cognate with Cebuano bagal, Kapampangan bagal, Maranao bagal, and Malay bagal.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɡal/ [ˈbaː.ɣɐl]
• Rhymes: -aɡal
• Syllabification: ba‧gal

bagal (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜄᜎ᜔)

1. slowness (to act or decide)
2. slow motion; lack of speed

• “bagal”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bagal”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• labag, balag