pusyaw
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- posiao, posiyao, pusiyau, pusyau – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
Etymology
From Hokkien 不肖 (put-siàu, “unseemly; dishonorable”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pus‧yaw
- IPA(key): /pusˈjaw/, [pʊˈʃaʊ̯]
Noun
pusyáw (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜐ᜔ᜌᜏ᜔)
- paleness
- Synonym: putla
- pallor
Derived terms
- makapusyaw
- mapusyaw
- papusyawin
- pumusyaw
Further reading
- “pusyaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
- Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 46
- Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980), “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics (PDF), volume B, issue 71, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 133