# habla
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈabla/ [ˈa.β̞la]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -abla
* Syllabification: ha‧bla

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish fabla, from Latin fābula (“discourse”). Compare fábula, a borrowed doublet.

#### Noun

habla f (plural hablas)
* speech (faculty of speech)
* speaking (action)

##### Usage notes

* Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like habla take the singular definite article el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el habla. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al habla, del habla.
    These nouns also usually take the indefinite article un that is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una is also permitted): un habla or una habla. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).
    However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) must be used: la mejor habla, una buena habla.
* If an adjective follows the noun, it must agree with the noun's gender regardless of the article used: el habla única, un(a) habla buena.
* In the plural, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (las, unas etc.) are always used.

##### Derived terms

* acto de habla
* al habla
* sin habla

##### Related terms

* hablar (“to speak”)

##### Descendants

* → Tagalog: abla

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

habla
* inflection of hablar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative
    Habla. ― He [or she] speaks.
    (Usted) habla. (formal singular) ― (You) speak.
    ¡Habla! (informal singular) ― Speak!

### Further reading

* “habla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Early Modern Spanish hablar. Attested in Fr. San Buenaventura's Vocabulario de lengua tagala (1613). Doublet of abla and pabula, later borrowings.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /habˈla/ [hɐbˈla]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: hab‧la

### Noun

hablá (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜊ᜔ᜎ)
* (law) accusation; complaint (in court)
    Synonyms: sakdal, demanda, akusasyon, reklamo

#### Derived terms

* hablahan
* ihabla
* ipaghabla
* maghabla
* mahabla
* paghablahan
* paghahabla
* palahabla

### Further reading

* “habla”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
* Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
* San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
** page 19: “Acuſar) Habla [(pc)] quejandole de otro”
** page 223: “Denunçiar) Habla [(pc)] poniendo algun pleyto”
** page 485: “Pleyto) Habla (pc) que vno pone ſobre algunas tierras oro caſas o otra coſa”
** page 506: “Quejarſe) Habla (pc) ante algun tribunal”