nabasa

nabasa

Ilocano

Etymology

na- +‎ basa.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: na‧ba‧sá
• IPA^(key): /nabaˈsa/, [nɐbɐˈsa]

Adjective

nabasa

1. wet

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Tagalog

Etymology 1

From na- +‎ basa.

Pronunciation 1

• Hyphenation: na‧ba‧sa
• IPA^(key): /naˈbasa/, [nɐˈba.sɐ]

Verb

nabasa (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)

1. complete aspect of mabasa

Pronunciation 2

• Hyphenation: na‧ba‧sa
• IPA^(key): /ˌnaˈbasa/, [ˌnaˈba.sɐ]

Verb

nábása (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)

1. complete aspect of mabasa

Pronunciation 3

• Hyphenation: na‧ba‧sa
• IPA^(key): /nabaˈsaʔ/, [nɐ.bɐˈsaʔ]

Verb

nabasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)

1. complete aspect of mabasa

Pronunciation 4

• Hyphenation: na‧ba‧sa
• IPA^(key): /ˌnabaˈsaʔ/, [ˌna.bɐˈsaʔ]

Verb

nábasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)

1. complete aspect of mabasa

Etymology 2

Borrowed from (c. 16th-18th century) Early Modern Spanish navaja, from Vulgar Latin *navācla, from Latin novācula (“razor”). In Early Modern Spanish, Spanish ⟨j⟩ was pronounced /ʃ/; /ʃ/ became /s/ as common with other early borrowings. Doublet of labaha.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: na‧ba‧sa
• IPA^(key): /naˈbasa/, [nɐˈba.sɐ]

Noun

nabasa (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)

1. (obsolete) razor

   Synonyms: pang-ahit, labaha, labasa, (obsolete) kalumpagi

References

• Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 441: “Nauaja) Nabaſa (pp) C. con que ſe hace [la raſura], y ala llaman todos anſi”