List of English words of Philippine origin

This is a list of English words which originate from any of the Philippine languages:

• abacá - a species of banana native to the Philippines. The plant is of major economical importance, being harvested for its fibre, called manila hemp, from abaka
• adobo - refers to a Philippine dish or a Latin American marinade. The word entered English in 1938 and is of Spanish origin.[1]
• the boondocks - a remote, thinly settled, usually brushy rural area. Entered English in 1909 from the Tagalog bundok, which means "mountain"[2] or the word bunduk (Visayan Bukid) meaning "hinterland", i.e., land area inland, away from the shore.
• calamondin - a small evergreen citrus fruit tree, native to the Philippines, and used there for cooking and as a houseplant elsewhere, from kalamunding
• capiz - decoration material, made of mother-of-pearl shells that have the same name
• cedula - a Philippine tax
• cooties - from Tagalog and Austronesian word kuto which literally means "head lice". Entered English in 1917 from the Malay kutu.[3]
• datto - a Philippine tribe leader
• ditta - a Philippine tree
• halo-halo - a dessert.[4]
• lauan - the light yellow to reddish-brown or brown wood of any of various tropical southeast Asian trees, from lawaan
• machin - a grayish brown long-tailed macaque (Macaca philippinensis), from matsing meaning monkey or ape
• panguingue - a 19th-century gambling card game, from pangginggi
• dita - a Philippine tree
• salacot - broad-brimmed hat woven from strips of cane or from palm leaves, from salakot
• ube - a Philippine yam
• yo-yo - the toy, from Ilocano word yoyo[5]
• shawty - a African-American ghetto dialect for girlfriend, from syota