Etymology

sampaguita

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Philippine Spanish sampaguita
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  1. Philippine Spanish · borrowed fromsampaguita
  2. English todaysampaguita

Borrowed from Philippine Spanish sampaguita, from sampaga + -ita.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.