# talaga
## Agutaynen
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *talagá (“truly, surely, really, in fact”).

### Adverb

talaga
* really

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *talagá (“truly, surely, really, in fact”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /talaˈɡa/ [ta.l̪aˈɡa]
* Hyphenation: ta‧la‧ga

### Adverb

talagá (Basahan spelling ᜆᜎᜄ)
* really; truly
    Synonyms: nanggad, baya

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

From Sanskrit तलक (talaka) or तडाग (taḍāga).

### Noun

talaga
* a well
* lake
* tank
* pool, pond

#### Derived terms

* analaga
* atalaga
* tinalaga

#### Descendants

* Javanese: ꦠ꧀ꦭꦒ (tlaga)

## Old Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian телега (telega).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /talʲaɡa/
* IPA: (15th CE) /talʲaɡa/

### Noun

talaga f
* Alternative form of telega

### Further reading

* Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/telega on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource $^{pl}$

## Sundanese
### Etymology

Ultimately from Sanskrit तडाग (taḍāga). Cognate to Javanese ꦠ꧀ꦭꦒ (tlaga).

### Noun

talaga (Sundanese script ᮒᮜᮌ)
* lake
    Synonym: situ

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *talagá (“truly, surely, really, in fact”). Compare Kapampangan talaga and Bikol Central talaga.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /talaˈɡa/ [t̪ɐ.lɐˈɣa]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: ta‧la‧ga

#### Adverb

talagá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜄ)
* surely; certainly; really; undoubtedly
    Synonyms: sigurado, tiyak, walang-duda, walang-alinlangan
* purposely; intentionally
    Synonyms: sadya, sinadya

##### Alternative forms

* tlaga, tlga, tlg — text messaging

#### Interjection

talagá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜄ)
* indeed!; certainly

#### Noun

talagá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜄ)
* will; disposition (as of God)
    Synonyms: loob, kalooban
* act of inducting or installing (of officers, officials, etc.)
    Synonyms: pagpapanumpa, pagpapaluklok
* act of assigning an employee (to a certain place)
    Synonyms: destino, pagdedestino, asignasyon
* act of setting aside of something (for a certain purpose)
    Synonyms: laan, paglalaan, taan, pagtataan

##### Derived terms

* italaga
* katalagahan
* magtalaga
* matalaga
* nakatalaga
* pagtatalaga
* tumalaga

### Etymology 2

Possibly borrowed from Malay telaga, from Sanskrit तलक (talaka, “pond”). Compare Javanese ꦠ꧀ꦭꦒ (tlaga, “lake”), Kapampangan talaga, Sundanese talaga (“lake”), and Ternate talaga (“lake”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /taˈlaɡaʔ/ [t̪ɐˈlaː.ɣɐʔ]
* Rhymes: -aɡaʔ
* Syllabification: ta‧la‧ga

#### Noun

talagà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜄ)
* well (of water)
    Synonym: balon

##### See also

* balong
* tangke

### Further reading

* “talaga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1887) El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog‎ (in Spanish), Paris: Imprimerie de la Faculté de Médecine, A. Davy, page 53

### Anagrams

* Tagala

## Ternate
### Etymology

From Malay telaga, from Sanskrit तलक (talaka, “pond”), तडाग (taḍāga, “pond”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ta.ˈla.ɡa]

### Noun

talaga
* a lake

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh