desgrasyada
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- disgrasyada
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish desgraciada, feminine form of desgraciado (“unfortunate”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: des‧gras‧ya‧da
- IPA(key): /desɡɾasˈjada/, [des.ɡɾɐˈʃa.dɐ]
Noun
desgrasyada
- (derogatory) woman who have been dishonored by being raped or having given birth out of wedlock
- Synonym: laspag
- 1992, Hugot sa sinapupunan:
- Pawang personal na isyu ang ibinato sa akin, mula sa pagiging disgrasyada hanggang sa pagkakaroon ng pangit na reputasyon. Pero walang ibinunga ang maruruming taktika ng kabilang kampo […]
- They mostly threw personal issues to me, from me having given birth out of wedlock to having a bad reputation. But nothing came out of the dirty tactics from both camps
- 1998, Benigno Ramos, Gumising ka, aking bayan: mga piling tula:
- Sa mga tulang ito, pinag-ukulan niya ng pansin ang babaeng desgrasyada, ang babaeng inalipin at pinagsamantalahan, o ang babaeng kinasangkapan at naging puta.
- In these poems, he paid attention to the disgraced woman, the woman who has been enslaved and abused, or the woman turned into an instrument and become a whore.
Adjective
desgrasyada
- (derogatory) dishonored (of a woman who has been raped or has given birth out of wedlock)
- Synonyms: pinagsamantalahan, pinag-abusuhan, kinulang-palad, inapi, nasawi
Related terms
- desgrasya
- desgrasyado
Further reading
- “desgrasyada”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018