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Kalinga

name · noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • Philippines, place: /kɐ.lɪˈŋa/
  • Philippines: /kɐ.lɪŋˈɡa/ people, language
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Meaning 1

A province of the Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tabuk. The province was created from the partitioning of Kalinga-Apayao

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Meronyms: Balbalan, Lubuagan, Pasil, Pinukpuk, Rizal, Tabuk, Tanudan, Tinglayan — city and municipalities of Kalinga

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Meaning 2

A former Spanish commandancy in the Philippines.

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Usage: historical

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Meaning 3

A former subprovince of the former province of Lepanto-Bontoc in northern Philippines, created from the commandancy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

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Meaning 4

A dialect continuum of Kalinga Province in the Philippines, spoken by the Kalinga people.

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Meaning 5

A historical region in modern Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, in eastern India.

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Meaning 6

A mythological kingdom in eastern South Asia, described in the Mahabharata.

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noun

Meaning 7

An indigenous ethnic group whose ancestral domain is in the Cordillera Mountain Range of the northern Philippines.

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Usage: plural, plural-only

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History

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit कलिङ्ग (kaliṅga).

Real reading context

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