What does pinay mean? A pinay is a woman from the philippines, especially one with filipino heritage living abroad. Its male counterpart is pinoy.

Informal a female native or inhabitant of the philippines. Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, video. Listen to pronunciation of pinay, a tagalog slang word that filipinos use for a filipina. It has no negative connotation. Male counterpart of this is pinoy. Pinoy is formed by taking the last four letters of filipino and adding the diminutive suffix -y in the tagalog language (the suffix is commonly used in filipino nicknames: Noynoy or kokoy or toytoy).

Male counterpart of this is pinoy. Pinoy is formed by taking the last four letters of filipino and adding the diminutive suffix -y in the tagalog language (the suffix is commonly used in filipino nicknames: Noynoy or kokoy or toytoy).