bilanggo

Uncertain. Either from Proto-Bisayan *bilaŋgu, or borrowed from Tamil விலங்கு (vilaṅku, “animal; fetters; shackles; manacles”)(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?).

• IPA^(key): /biˈlaŋɡoʔ/ [bɪˈl̪aŋ.ɡoʔ]
• Hyphenation: bi‧lang‧go

bilanggò (Badlit spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜅ᜔ᜄᜓ)

1. to imprison; to jail

bilanggò (Badlit spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜅ᜔ᜄᜓ)

1. (historical) sheriff; constable

• → Hiligaynon: bilanggo

Borrowed from Cebuano bilanggo^[1] or inherited from Proto-Visayan *bilaŋgu, ultimately from Tamil விலங்கு (vilaṅku, “animal; fetters; shackles; manacles”)(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?).

• IPA^(key): /biˈlaŋɡoʔ/ [biˈlaŋ.ɡʊʔ]
• Hyphenation: bi‧lang‧go

bilanggò

1. imprison, incarcerate, confine

From Tagalog bilanggo, ultimately from Tamil விலங்கு (vilaṅku, “animal; fetters; shackles; manacles”)(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?).

• IPA^(key): /bilaŋˈɡo/ [bi.lɐŋˈɡo]
• Hyphenation: bi‧lang‧go

bilanggó (Kur-itan spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜅ᜔ᜄᜓ)

1. senior officer of a prison or school

• bilangguan

• bilango — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Borrowed from Malay belenggu (“shackle”), ultimately from Tamil விலங்கு (vilaṅku, “animal; fetters; shackles; manacles”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /bilaŋˈɡoʔ/ [bɪ.lɐŋˈɡoʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: bi‧lang‧go

bilanggô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜅ᜔ᜄᜓ)

1. prisoner; captive; convict

   Synonyms: bihag, preso

2. act of imprisonment

   Synonyms: kulong, piit, bilibid

3. (law enforcement, historical, obsolete) bailiff

   Synonyms: alguwasil, agusil

• → Ilocano: bilanggo

• “bilanggo”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[2] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, page 48: “BILANGÓ. pc. alguacil”
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[3] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[4], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 45: “Alguaçil) Bilango (pc) de qualquier juſtiçia”
  • page 276: “Encarçelar) Bilango (pc) alos delinquentes”
  • page 494: “Prender) Bilango (pc) con autoridad”
  • page 495: “Preſo) Bilango (pc) eſtar alguno”
• Zorc, David Paul (1979–1983) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 1, page 48
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “prisoner”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 302
• Scott, William Henry (1994) “The Visayas”, in Barangay: Sixteenth-century Philippine Culture and Society‎^[5], Ateneo University Press, page 70: “His sheriff or constable was bilanggo, whose own house served as a jail, bilanggowan^[sic].”