TANDANG


tandang
rooster


pulang tandang
red rooster


magtandang-tandangan
to be proud like a rooster


Gumiri gaya ng tandang.
To strut like a rooster.


There's a funny Filipino song whose title is Ang Aming Pulang Tandang (Our Red Rooster). It's about a rooster who seemed like a wise sage in encouraging people to wake up early and head for work. But one day the father brought the rooster to a cockfight...



The tandang also struts its stuff in the Filipino song Sitsiritsit.


The Tagalog  word for 'chicken' is manok.





The word Tandang can also be short for Matandang ("old") as in the name Tandang Sora.