sisiwa

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• sisiua — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Etymology

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish chichigua (“wet nurse”) during the Early Modern Spanish period, from Classical Nahuatl chichihua (“wet nurse”), from chichi (“suckle”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /siˈsiwa/ [sɪˈsiː.wɐ]
• Rhymes: -iwa
• Syllabification: si‧si‧wa

Noun

sisiwa (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜐᜒᜏ)

1. wet nurse

   Synonyms: mamay, yaya

Derived terms

• magsisiwa
• sisiwahin

 

See also

• nars

 

Further reading

• “sisiwa”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “sisiwa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1191.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 50: “Ama) Siſiva (pp) que cria niño aſus pechos.”
  • page 200: “Criar) Siſiva (pp) C. los niños delos eſpañoles”
• Lopez, Cecilio (1965) “The Spanish overlay in Tagalog”, in Lingua‎^[3], volume 14, →DOI, →ISSN