asapran

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree
Aramaic צפרder.
Arabic زَعْفَرَان (zaʕfarān)
Andalusian Arabic زعفرانbor.
Spanish azafránbor.
Tagalog asapran

    Borrowed from Spanish azafrán, from Arabic اَلزَّعْفَرَان (az-zaʕfarān, “the saffron”) via Andalusian Arabic.

    Pronunciation

    • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔasaˈpɾan/ [ʔɐ.sɐˈpɾan̪]
    • Rhymes: -an
    • Syllabification: a‧sa‧pran

    Noun

    asaprán (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜐᜉ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔)

    1. saffron

    See also

    Further reading

    • “asapran”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
    • Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 54
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