Meaning of "know"

know •

v.
• • 1. to know: alam
  • 2. to know someone: makilala, kilalanin
  • 3. to have knowledge of: malaman, mabatid
  • 4. to understand: umunawa, maunawaan
  • 5. to learn: matuto, matutuhan
  • 6. to let know: ipaalam, ipabatid, sabihin, pagsabihan, ibalita, balitaan

adj.
• • to be thoroughly familiar with: marunong, maalam

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tell

v.
• • 1. to put in words, say: magsabi, sabihin
  • 2. to inform, tell to: magpatalastas, ipatalastas, pagpatalastasan, magpabatid, ipabatid, sabihin, sabihan
  • 3. to make known: magbigay-alam, ipagbigayalam, ipaalam
  • 4. to know, inform: malaman, mabatid
  • 5. to order, command: mag-utos, iutos, utusan, mag-atas, iatas, atasan
  • 6. to count, count one by one: magbilang, bumilang, bilangin
  • 7. to tell a lie: magsinungaling, magsinungaling, pagsinungalingan, magbulaan, pagbulaanan
  • 8. to tell the truth: magtapat, ipagtapat, pagtapatan, sabihin ang katotohanan
  • 9. to tell a story: magkuwento, ikuwento, magbida, ibida
  • 10. to tell on somebody: magsumbong, ipagsumbong, isumbong

interest

n.
• • 1. a feeling of wanting to know, do or own, or share in: interes, hilig, malasakit, pagkagusto, pagkawili
  • 2. advantage, profit, benefit: kapakinabangan, kapakanan, kabutihan
  • 3. a share in property or business: puhunan, pamumuhunan
  • 4. money paid for the use of money: interes, pakinabang, tubo, patubo

v.
• • 1. to excite curiosity, attention: umakit, maakit, akitin
  • 2. to hold the attention of: mawili
  • 3. to bear interest: tumubo, magtubo
  • 4. to charge interest: magpatubo, patubuan

curious

adj.
• • eager to know: mausisa, usisero/a, osyoso/a

can

v.
• • 1. to be able: rendered by maka- and ma- prefixes or by maaari or puwede with the infinitive
  • 2. to know how to: marunong, maalam can

n.
• • a container: lata

v.
• • to preserve in an airtight can: magsalata, isalata

name

n.
• • 1. a word or words by which a person, animal, place or thing is spoken of or to: pangalan, ngalan
  • 2. a word that means any object, or any one of a group of objects: tawag, katawagan
  • 3. reputation: puri, karangalan, mabuting pangalan
  • 4. title: pamagat, titulo

v.
• • 1. to give a name to: magngalan, ngalanan, pangalanan, ingalan, ipangalan
  • 2. to mention by name: sabihin ang pangalan
  • 3. to give or know the right name for: alam ang pangalan ng o ang tawag sa
  • 4. to mention, give as an instance, cite: bumanggit, banggitin, tumukoy, tukuyin

wonder

n.
• • 1. a strange and surprising thing or event: kababalaghan, himala
  • 2. the feeling caused by what is strange and surprising: taka, pagtataka, paghanga

v.
• • 1. to feel wonder: magtaka, pagtakhan, ipagtaka, humanga, hangaan, ihanga
  • 2. to be surprised: mamangha, magulat, magtaka
  • 3. to be curious about, to wish to know: gustong malaman, alamin

understand

v.
• • 1. to get the meaning of: umintindi, intindihin, maintindihan, umunawa, unawain, maunawaan
  • 2. to know well, to know how to deal with: makaunawa, maunawaan, makaintindi, maintindihan
  • 3. to be informed, to learn: matalos, malaman, mabatid
  • 4. to take as a fact, to believe: maniwala, paniwalaan
  • 5. to supply in the mind: umalam, alamin, malaman, magsaisip, isaisip, masaisip
  • 6. to understand thoroughly, to comprehend: tumarok, matarok, tarukin
  • 7. to know: umalam, malaman, alamin
  • 8. to realize: tumanto, matanto, tantuin

guess

n.
• • an opinion formed without really knowing: hula

v.
• • 1. to form an opinion when one does not know exactly: humula, hulaan
  • 2. to think, to suppose: magpalagay, ipalagay

meet

v.
• • 1. to come face to face with someone coming from another direction: magkasalubong, masalubong, makasalubong
  • 2. to come together, join: magtagpo, magkatagpo
  • 3. to receive and welcome on arrival: sumalubong, salubungin
  • 4. to be introduced to, to know: magkilala, makilala, magkakilala, kilalanin, makakilala
  • 5. to meet a person on the way (intentionally): sumalubong, salubungin, sumaluno, salunuin
  • 6. to find, discover or meet (by chance): makatagpo, makasalubong, magkita
  • 7. to assemble: magtipon, magtipun-tipon
  • 8. to pay a bill, ones debts, etc.: magbayad, bayaran, makabayad
  • 9. to hold a meeting, as a society: magpulong, magmiting
  • 10. to meet needs, to satisfy the needs: masapatan, makasapat, matugunan, makatugon
  • 11. to meet or satisfy the wishes: magbigay, pagbigyan
  • 12. to meet or satisfy demands: matustusan, tustusan, masapatan

n.
• • 1. a meeting: pulong, kapulungan, miting
  • 2. a contest, esp. an athletic one: paligsahan, labanan
  • 3. a gathering: pagtitipon

awake

v.
• • 1. to wake up: gumising, gisingin, magising
  • 2. to be awake to, to be aware of, to know: malaman, mabatid, mamulat
  • 3. to stay awake at night: magpuyat, pagpuyatan, maglamay, paglamayan
  • 4. to arouse or awaken suddenly: gumulantang, magulantang, gulantangin

adj.
• • 1. not asleep: gising
  • 2. newly awaked, half-awake and showing sleepiness in the eyes: pupungas-pungas, naaalimpungatan

aywan

phrase.
• • be ignorant of something. Aywan ko. I don't know. [var. ewan] [syn. di alam]

pare

n.
• • 1. pare' priest [var. pari']
  • 2. pare appellation for a male friend, derived from kumpare or kumpadre, the feminine form is mare from kumare; sometimes used to address a man whose name one does not know

alamin

p.v.
• • (-in) to know, to have a knowledge of, to find out. Alamin mo kung ano ang nangyari. Find out what happened.

kilala

adj.
• • famous, well-known, acquainted with one another (magkakilala) magkakilala, makilala (mag-:ma)

v.
• • to happen to know, to happen to meet, to become acquainted

balita

n.
• • news

adj.
• • well-known, famous, talked about magbalita', ibalita' (mag-:i-)

v.
• • to tell, to report, to relay the news. Ibalita mo naman sa amin ang nangyari. Let us know what happened.

malaman

v.
• • to know

ewan

pv.
• • don't know [var. aywan]. Ewan ko. I don't know.