English Explanatory Dictionary

Kalinga

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A province of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tabuk. The province was created from the partitioning of Kalinga-Apayao
  2. A former Spanish commandancy in the Philippines.
  3. A former subprovince of the former province of Lepanto-Bontoc in northern Philippines, created from the commandancy.
  4. A dialect continuum of Kalinga Province in the Philippines, spoken by the Kalinga people.
noun
  1. An indigenous ethnic group whose ancestral domain is in the Cordillera Mountain Range of the northern Philippines.
name
  1. A historical region in modern Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, in eastern India.
  2. A mythological kingdom in eastern South Asia, described in the Mahabharata.

Pronunciation

/kɐ.lɪˈŋa/ /kɐ.lɪŋˈɡa/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mlgc1998-Kalinga.wav

Word forms

Kalinga

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit कलिङ्ग (kaliṅga).

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