madyong

• IPA^(key): /madˈjoŋ/ [mɐd̪ˈjoŋ]
• Hyphenation: mad‧yong

From English mahjong.

madyóng

1. mahjong

madyóng

1. sandbur (genus Cenchrus, especially Cenchrus echinatus and Cenchrus longispinus)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:madyong.

Borrowed from English mahjong, from Mandarin 麻將／麻将 (májiàng).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /madˈjoŋ/ [mɐˈd͡ʒoŋ]
  • IPA^(key): (no yod coalescence) /madˈjoŋ/ [mɐd̪ˈjoŋ]
• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Syllabification: mad‧yong

madyóng (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜅ᜔)

1. mahjong (Chinese tile game)

• “madyong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 39