Sometimes we tend to forget most of the Filipino words when we used to live abroad for a long time since we need to speak the universal languange to communicate. I just realized it when my co-teacher Ate Zeny asked in one of our get together party if what is the color of brown in tagalog? I responded in no ease "kayumanggi!," to my surprise she was so delighted that I still remember it. Well, she's been living here in Bahrain for almost 20 years where she started her family. She said that she tried to search in the internet and asked everyone she knows, she should have been called me. It's one of the homework from Philiipine School here.
I am writing this blog not to boast that Im the only one who knew it in our group but also serves as my reference in case I tend to forget it too. Here are some of the colors translated in Filipino.
brown- kayumanggi, red- pula, yellow- dilaw, pink- rosas, blue- bughaw,
orange- kahel (source:my husband), green- berde o luntian, violet- ube,
black- itim, gray- abo..
