butuhan
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- botohan, bot-ohan — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
- bothoan — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling, metathesis
- buthuan — metathesis
- but-uhan — now dialectal, Southern Tagalog
Etymology
From earlier but-uhan, from but-o + -han. By surface analysis, buto + -han. Doublet of buthuan and butuan.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog)
- IPA(key): /butuˈhan/ [bʊ.t̪ʊˈhan̪] (adjective, verb)
- Rhymes: -an
- IPA(key): /butuˈhan/ [bʊ.t̪ʊˈhan̪], /buˈtuhan/ [bʊˈt̪uː.hɐn̪] (noun)
- Rhymes: -an, -uhan
- IPA(key): /butuˈhan/ [bʊ.t̪ʊˈhan̪] (adjective, verb)
- Syllabification: bu‧tu‧han
Adjective
butuhán (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜓᜑᜈ᜔)
- bony; full of bones
- Synonym: mabuto
- seedy (full of seeds)
- Synonym: mabuto
- (figurative) thin; skinny
- Synonyms: payat, buto't balat, payatot, buto-buto
- (obsolete) undercooked (of rice)
Verb
butuhán (complete binutuhan, progressive binubutuhan, contemplative bubutuhan, Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜓᜑᜈ᜔)
Derived terms
- pagbubutuhan
- pagbutuhan
See also
Noun
butuhán or butuhan (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜓᜑᜈ᜔)
- alternative form of butuan
Further reading
- Serrano Laktaw, Pedro (1914), Diccionario tagálog-hispano (overall work in Tagalog and Spanish), Intramuros, Manila: Ateneo de Manila., page 179
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.[1] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.