upuan

• opoan — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

From upo +‎ -an.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ʔuˈpuʔan/ [ʔʊˈpuː.ʔɐn̪] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -uʔan
  • IPA^(key): /ʔupuˈʔan/ [ʔʊ.pʊˈʔan̪] (verb)
    • Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: u‧pu‧an

upuan (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜓᜀᜈ᜔)

1. chair (anything used to sit on)

   Synonyms: silya, bangko, uupan, likmuan, luklukan, salumpuwit

2. act of sitting at the same time (of a number of people)

   Synonyms: pag-uupuan, luklukan, pagluluklukan

3. (obsolete) stopping place to be idle

upuán (complete inupuan, progressive inuupuan, contemplative uupuan, Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜓᜀᜈ᜔)

1. to sit on something

   Synonym: luklukan

   Inupuan niya ang unan ko.

   He sat on my pillow.

• op-an — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• upan
• up-an — dialectal, Southern Tagalog

• “upuan”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “upuan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 464: “Paradero) Opoan (pp) dovan todos apartar como parte publica, ſale de opo, al cuerpo de guardia llaman anſi por ir alli a parar los ſoldados ya eſtar o cioſos, opoan nang mang̃a Caſtila, llaman eſtos en Manila la plaça dovan a parar todos ay eſtar o cioſos pendiendo tiempo”