ditan

== Galician == === Verb === ditan third-person plural present indicative of ditar == Pangasinan == === Etymology === Compare Central Bikol diyan and Tagalog diyan. === Adverb === ditán there (far from the speaker, but near the person addressed) ==== Coordinate terms ==== dia diman == Tagalog == === Alternative forms === digtan — obsolete ditaan dit-an — obsolete === Etymology === From earlier dit-an, syncopic form of ditaan, from dita (“arrow poison”) +‎ -an. The plant was once believed to be a poisonous rattan, and its fruits were regarded as inedible. Compare Ilocano ditaan (“hard rattan”). === Pronunciation === (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /diˈtan/ [d̪ɪˈt̪an̪] Rhymes: -an Syllabification: di‧tan === Noun === ditán (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜆᜈ᜔) Calamus mollis, a species of rattan with a thorny, reddish stem that usually grows in finger-like shapes Calamus loherianus ==== See also ==== === Further reading === “ditan”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025 “ditan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018 Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎[1] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.