alipusta
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- aliposta – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
Etymology
Possibly from Sanskrit परिपुष्ट (paripuṣṭa, “nourished”), from परिपुष् (paripuṣ, “nourish”), with semantic shift over time. Compare Old Javanese paripoṣita (“do something with great care and assiduity”). Also possibly from Sanskrit परिप्लुष्ट (paripluṣṭa, “burned”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: a‧li‧pus‧ta
- IPA(key): /ʔalipusˈtaʔ/, [ʔɐ.lɪ.pʊsˈtaʔ]
Noun
alipustâ
- insult; taunt; bitter remark
- Synonyms: paghamak, paghalay, insulto, dusta, lait
- (obsolete) act of verifying something
- Synonyms: alusitha, siyasat
Derived terms
- alipustain
- mag-alipusta
- mang-alipusta
- pag-aalipusta
- pag-alipusta
- umalipusta
Adjective
alipustâ
- despised and maltreated (due to being lowly)
- Synonyms: api, dusta, amis
References
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 273
- P. J. Zoetmulder (1982) Old Javanese-English dictionary, 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, →ISBN, OCLC 9549679
- Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier