kamya

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: kam‧ya

Noun

kamya

  1. Hedychium coronarium; a perennial flowering plant from the ginger family Zingiberaceae

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *kamiá (“ginger plant with fragrant white flower”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kamˈja/ [kɐmˈja], /ˈkamja/ [ˈkam.jɐ]
  • Rhymes: -a, -amja
  • Syllabification: kam‧ya

Noun

kamyá or kamya (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜋ᜔ᜌ)

  1. white ginger lily (Hedychium coronarium)

Further reading

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

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