aksaya

Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

From Sanskrit क्षय (kṣayá, “decay, corossion”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation edit

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaksaˈja/, [ʔɐk.sɐˈja]
Rhymes: -a
Syllabification: ak‧sa‧ya

Noun edit

aksayá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜃ᜔ᜐᜌ)

waste; wastefulness; squandering

Derived terms edit

Adjective edit

aksayá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜃ᜔ᜐᜌ)

wasteful; extravagant
Synonym: maaksaya
wasted

References edit

^ Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 273
^ Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1887) El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog‎^[1] (in Spanish), Paris: Imprimerie de la Faculté de Médecine, A. Davy, page 15

Further reading edit

“aksaya” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[2], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
“aksaya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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