Mabuhay Ang Taytay (Taytay, Rizal Hymn)
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Mabuhay () is a Filipino
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, usually expressed as , which means " long live!". The term is also occasionally used for toasts during celebrations to mean "cheers". It is similar to the Hawaiʻian expression "
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". It is used in the local hospitality industry to welcome guests, a practice rooted in a 1993 campaign launched by restaurateur Rod Ongpauco to more uniquely welcome foreign visitors to the Philippines. ''Mabuhay'' is also the name of the inflight magazine published by flag-carrier,
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, as well as its
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.


Historical

The word itself has been recorded as a salutation at least early as 1930, when General
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was sent off amid shouts of “''Mabuhay!”'' In 1941, the ''Rotarian'' noted local chapters using it in conveying well wishes to the
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. In February 1973, a big cloth sign saying “''Mabuhay, Maj. Bob Peel”'' welcomed released
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, U.S.
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Robert D. Peel, as he stopped by the country as part of
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.


Current usage

The word is otherwise used in its more traditional form as a cheer, especially during celebrations in a variety of contexts: * ''“Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! Mabuhay ang Repúblika!”''
(“Long live the Philippines! Long live the Republic!”) * ''“Mabuhay ang Pangulo!”''
(“Long live the President!”) * ''“Mabuhay ang bagong kasál!”''
(“Long live the newlyweds!”)


''Viva''

The
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equivalent ''Viva'' is a special use case, as it is today almost always found in
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contexts. It is specifically part of acclamations directed to a
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or
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during community
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and assemblies (e.g., “''¡Viva, Señor Santo Niño!” “¡Viva, Poóng Jesús Nazareno!”'')


Cognates

A number of other
Philippine languages The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama–Bajaw (language ...
have phrases that are cognates of “''Mabuhay''”. The
Bisayan languages The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines. They are most closely related to Tagalog and the Bikol languages, all of which are part of the Central Philippine languages. Mo ...
, for example, use the term "''Mabuhi''", while Kapampangans have the phrase "''Luid ka''".


See also

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Ad multos annos ''Ad multos annos'' (English: ''For many more years'') is a Latin acclamation for celebrations, and also a hymn used in the rites of the Orthodox and Catholic churches. Origin A Greco-Roman form of congratulation ''Ad multos annos'' was a form o ...
*
Aloha ''Aloha'' ( , Hawaiian: ˈlohə is the Hawaiian word for love, affection, peace, compassion and mercy, that is commonly used as a greeting. It has a deeper cultural and spiritual significance to native Hawaiians, for whom the term is use ...
*
Culture of the Philippines The culture of the Philippines is characterized by great ethnic diversity. Although the multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipino national identity, their cultures were all shaped by ...
*
Filipino language Filipino ( ; , ) is the national language of the Philippines, the main lingua franca, and one of the two official languages of the country, along with Philippine English, English. It is only a ''de facto'' and not a ''de jure'' standard langu ...
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Huzzah Huzzah (sometimes written hazzah; originally spelled huzza and pronounced , now often pronounced as ; in most modern varieties of English hurrah or hooray) is, according to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED''), "apparently a mere excla ...
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Hip hip hooray Hip hip hooray (also hippity hip hooray; ''hooray'' may also be spelled and pronounced hoorah, hurrah, hurray etc.) is a cheer called out to express congratulation toward someone or something, in the English-speaking world and elsewhere, usually ...
*
Kia Ora Kia ora (, approximated in English as or ) is a Māori-language greeting which has entered New Zealand English. It translates literally as "have life" or "be healthy", wishing the essence of life upon someone, from one speaker to the othe ...
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Merdeka ''Merdeka'' ( Jawi: ; , ) is a term in Indonesian and Malay which means "independent" or " free". It is derived from the Sanskrit ''maharddhika'' (महर्द्धिक) meaning "rich, prosperous, and powerful". In the Malay Archipelag ...
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Tagalog language Tagalog ( ,According to the ''OED'' anMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary ; ''Baybayin'': ) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as ...
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Talofa Talofa is a salutation or greeting in the Samoan language of the Samoan Islands.{{cite book, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ptk9xUamLeUC&q=ali%27i&pg=PA209, title=Linguistic anthropology, first=Alessandro, last=Duranti, publisher=John Wiley ...
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Ten thousand years In various East Asian languages such as Chinese language, Chinese, Japanese language, Japanese, Korean language, Korean, and Vietnamese language, Vietnamese, the phrase "Wànsuì", "Banzai", "Manse", and "Vạn tuế", respectively, meaning "myr ...
*
The king is dead, long live the king! "The king is dead, long live the king!" is a traditional proclamation made following the accession of a new monarch in various countries. The seemingly contradictory phrase simultaneously announces the death of the previous monarch and asserts co ...


References

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