balailo

From balai (“sweep”) +‎ -ilo (“tool”).

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• IPA^(key): /balaˈilo/
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Hyphenation: ba‧la‧i‧lo

balailo (accusative singular balailon, plural balailoj, accusative plural balailojn)

1. broom

• balaylo — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /balaˈʔilo/ [bɐ.lɐˈʔiː.lo]
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Syllabification: ba‧la‧i‧lo

balailo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜁᜎᜓ) (obsolete)

1. fickle; inconstant

   Synonyms: salawahan, aling-aling, pabago-bago, mabalinuin, boluble

   balailong loob ― fickle heart

• “balailo”, 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^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier