pamagat

Tagalog
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription, c. 900 AD

Alternative forms
  • magat — clipping, obsolete
  • gat — clipping, obsolete

Etymology

According to Postma (1991), it could be from Old Javanese pamgat / pamagat / pamĕgĕt (“a person invested with a high office or rank at court; leader; chief”) as found in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, or possibly from Old Tagalog.[1] Alternatively, possibly conjugated through pa- +‎ magat or pam- +‎ bagat.[2] Compare Sundanese ᮕᮙᮨᮌᮨᮒ᮪ (pameget, “man; mister”), Indonesian pameget (“male; master”), Malay pamegat (“lord; master; mister; sir”). See also Malay megat.

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /pamaˈɡat/ [pɐ.mɐˈɣat]
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: pa‧ma‧gat

Noun

pamagát (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜋᜄᜆ᜔)

  1. title (name of a book, writing, paper, film, video, musical piece, painting, sculpture, or other work of art)
    Synonyms: titulo, engkabesamyento
    Anong pamagat ng iyong isinulat na tula?
    What is the title of your written poem?
  2. (dated) honorific prepended or post-nominal appended to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification
    may pamagat na Gobernador Heneral ― with a title of Governor General
  3. (obsolete) cognomen; nickname [3][4][5]
    Synonym: pamansag

Derived terms
  • ipamagat
  • magpamagat
  • pamagatan

See also

References
  1. Postma, Antoon (1991) “The Laguna Copper-Plate Inscription: A Valuable Philippine Document”, in Indo-Pacific Prehistory 1990 Assn. Bulletin 11‎, volume 2 (PDF), Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines: Mangyan Assistance and Research Center, page 165.
  2. Jean-Paul G. POTET (2016) Seventeenth-Century Events at Liliw‎, Jean-Paul G. POTET, page 41
  3. “pamagat”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  4. 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
  5. 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 556: “Sobrenombre) Pamagat (pc) de la perſona”
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