BILIBID

bilibid: jail

binilibid: put into jail

Bilibid is the name of a large prison in the Philippines.

IBA PANG KAHULUGAN SA TAGALOG

bilibid: sinulid, kurdon o iba pa na nakaikid nang maraming beses, kidkid, kilikid, pulupot

binilibid: kinurdon, pinulupot

bilibirin: (binibilibid, binilibid, bibilibirin)
to wind rope, wire, etc. around something, or roll it up

There is at least one literary work in the early 1970s that referred to binilibid as a name for a foodstuff.

One thought on “BILIBID”

  1. If bilibid means prison, why new bilibid prison? For “new”, I know that there was an old one in manila.

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