EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
dye; hair color...
tea (gossip)...
That's the tea; That's the gossip....
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/TIN-te/
FIL: Isang kemikal na pangkulay, lalo na para sa buhok.
EN: dye; hair color
This is what you use when you decide to go from black hair to blonde, or when you're trying to cover up those 'wisdom highlights' (a.k.a. white hair). It's the stuff in the box at Watsons that promises to change your life, or at least your hair color, for a few weeks.
From Spanish 'tinte' (dye, tint).
Almost exclusively used for hair dye in modern colloquial Tagalog. The more general word for 'dye' is 'tina'.
🇵🇭 Nagpakulay siya ng buhok gamit ang pulang tinte.
🇺🇸 She colored her hair using red dye.
🇵🇭 Anong tatak ng tinte ang maganda para sa buhok?
🇺🇸 What brand of hair dye is good?
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