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filipino

 : 
Adjective, Noun
 : 
Fil=i=pi=no

CIDE DICTIONARY

filipinoadj. 
  •  of or relating to the Philippines or its people or customs.  [WordNet 1.5]
  •  of or relating to the language of the Philippines.  [WordNet 1.5]
filipinon. [Sp.].
  •  A native or inhabitant of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood.
    "Then there are Filipinos, -- “children of the country,” they are called, -- who are supposed to be pure-blooded descendants of Spanish settlers. But there are few of them without some touch of Chinese or native blood."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  the official language of the Philippines, based on Tagalog. It draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

filipino, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. -os; fem. Filipina) a native or national of the Philippines, a group of islands in the SW Pacific.
--adj. of or relating to the Philippines or the Filipinos.

Etymology
Sp., = Philippine

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