Meaning and formation
Pilapil comes from a Philippine farming word for a “dike around a rice field”. Cebuano pilapil can also refer to the rice field itself, while Tagalog pilapil refers to its earthen embankment.
Dictionary pronunciation
- Cebuano: /piˈlapil/ · Wiktionary ↗
In the 1849 Catálogo transcription
The linked transcription records the following spelling and page position. Open the edition link to locate the printed page.
- pilapil · page 103 · column 5 · row 12 · Transcription ↗ · Digitized edition ↗
Public figures with this surname
Pilar Pilapil ↗
film producer
Elected officials in the 2001 list
Pilapil has 4 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.
OpenHalalan — 2001 ↗Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts