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Kapampangan, n. and a.
Brit. |ˌkapəmˈpaŋ(ə)n|, |ˌkʌpəmˈpʌŋ(ə)n|, U.S. |ˌkɑpəmˈpɑŋ(ə)n|
Plural -s unchanged
[‹ Kapampangan kapampangan, self-designation and name of a river and province, lit. ‘place of many river banks’ > n. and adj.
Capangpang˜an is attested as the name of the Pampanga province and river in the island of Luzon in a Spanish context in 1732.]
A. n.
1. A member of a people of central Luzon island in the Philippines, principally inhabiting its central plain around the Pampanga river. Cf. Pampangan n. 1.
1963B. E. Ward Women in New Asia 343 (table) Kapampangan 641,795. 1993Filipino Reporter (Nexis) 28 Oct. 19 We thought this was a stunning presentation. And so did Director Serafin Quiazon of the NHI, a Kapampangan, whose judgement was presumably less biased than ours. 1996Isis & Other Guides Health (Nexis) 80 A macrobiotic diet will have to be adjusted to suit a Kapampangan's taste for saucy and oily dishes. 2004Philippine Daily Enquirer (Nexis) 16 May The 200-member..theater group..presented through song and dance, in front of the Bacolor church in Pampanga, the beautiful culture and heritage of the Kapampangans.
2. The Northern Philippine language of the Kapampangans. Cf. Pampangan n. 2.
1967E. Constantinoet. al. Stud. in Philippine Anthropol. 569 (title) The personal pronouns of Tagalog, Ilukano, Isinai, and Kapampangan. 1971Amer. Speech 46 277 In a number of languages (Kapampangan, Nez Perce, and Tamil, for example), marking possession and indicating existence have the same surface form. 1995Language 71 831/2 Marianne Mithun explores the Philippine language Kapampangan. 1999BusinessWorld (Nexis) 20 Aug. 20 The Mequeni Cafe (‘mequeni’ is Kapampangan for ‘come here’), an all-day dining restaurant that features daily lunch and dinner buffets.
B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating the Kapampangans or their language. Cf. Pampangan adj.
1969Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 63 1167 (note) Pampangos are people who speak the Kapampangan dialect. 1974Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 37 281 The Kapampangan language community is the seventh largest..in the Philippines. 1984E. Hilario-Lacson (title) Kapampangan writing: a selected compendium and critique. 2003BusinessWorld (Philippines) (Nexis) 16 Sept. 22 The words that relate to the kitchen or to cuisine are familiar to both the Kapampangan and Tagalog males. |