Filipino
/ˌfɪlɪˈpiːnəʊ
/(also Pilipino)
adjective
Relating to the Philippines, the Filipinos, or their language.Later, journalists tracked him down to the Philippines, but the Filipino authorities were strangely unable to find him....
- However, the US ‘liberators’ of the Philippines would not allow Filipino troops to enter Manila, and refused to let them take part in the formal Spanish surrender.
- Thousands of US soldiers recently returned from the Philippines after training Filipino soldiers.
noun (plural Filipinos)
1A native or inhabitant of the Philippines, or a person of Filipino descent.And peace is something Filipinos in the southern Philippines have been waiting a long, long time for....
- Catholic priests immediately began to convert the native Filipinos to Catholicism.
- There are many Filipinos teaching in Thai schools around the nation.
2 [mass noun] The national language of the Philippines, a standardized form of Tagalog.The official languages are Filipino, which is based on Tagalog with words from other native languages, and English....
- Among the immigrant population, English, Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and Filipino are spoken.
- The playwrights quote texts in Filipino, the language of nationalism in the Philippines.
Origin
Spanish, from las Islas Filipinas 'the Philippine Islands'.