puhag
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- pohag — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puhaʀ (“smoke out bees”). Compare Central Bikol puhag, Maranao powag, and Iban puar. Doublet of buhag.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog)
- IPA(key): /ˈpuhaɡ/ [ˈpuː.hɐɡ̚] (noun)
- Rhymes: -uhaɡ
- IPA(key): /puˈhaɡ/ [pʊˈhaɡ̚] (adjective)
- Rhymes: -aɡ
- IPA(key): /ˈpuhaɡ/ [ˈpuː.hɐɡ̚] (noun)
- Syllabification: pu‧hag
Noun
puhag (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜑᜄ᜔)
- castration
- Synonyms: kapon, pagkapon
- harvesting comb honey from the beehive
- Synonym: buhag
Derived terms
- ipamuhag
- mamuhag
- mamumuhag
- mapuhag
- pamuhagan
- puhagin
Adjective
puhág (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜑᜄ᜔)
Further reading
- “puhag”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
- Serrano Laktaw, Pedro (1914), Diccionario tagálog-hispano (overall work in Tagalog and Spanish), Intramuros, Manila: Ateneo de Manila., page 1083
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*puhaR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI