singkona

== Tagalog == === Etymology === Possibly borrowed from English cinchona, from New Latin cinchōna, from Spanish Chinchón. Named by Carl Linnaeus after Ana de Osorio, 4th Countess of Chinchón (1599–1625), the wife of the Spanish Viceroy of Peru, who was allegedly cured of a fever by the bark. === Pronunciation === (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /siŋˈkona/ [sɪŋˈkoː.n̪ɐ] Rhymes: -ona Syllabification: sing‧ko‧na === Noun === singkona (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜅ᜔ᜃᜓᜈ) cinchona Synonym: kina ==== See also ==== === Further reading === “singkona”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018