nabasa

Ilocano

Etymology

na- +‎ basa.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: na‧ba‧sá
• IPA^(key): /nabaˈsa/, [nɐbɐˈsa]

Adjective

nabasa

1. wet

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From na- +‎ basa (“reading”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈbasa/, [nɐˈba.sɐ] (complete aspect)

• IPA^(key): /ˌnaˈbasa/, [ˌnaˈba.sɐ] (progressive aspect)
• Hyphenation: na‧ba‧sa

Verb

nabasa (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)

1. complete aspect of mabasa

Verb

nábása (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)

1. (dialectal) progressive aspect of bumasa

   Synonym: bumabasa

Etymology 2

From na- +‎ basa (“wet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nabaˈsaʔ/, [nɐ.bɐˈsaʔ] (complete aspect)

• IPA^(key): /ˌnabaˈsaʔ/, [ˌna.bɐˈsaʔ] (progressive aspect)
• Hyphenation: na‧ba‧sa

Verb

nabasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)

1. complete aspect of mabasa

Verb

nábasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)

1. (dialectal) progressive aspect of bumasa

   Synonym: bumabasa

Etymology 3

Borrowed from (c. 16th-18th century) Early Modern Spanish navaja, from Vulgar Latin *navācla, from Latin novācula (“razor”). In Early Modern Spanish, Spanish ⟨j⟩ was pronounced /ʃ/; /ʃ/ became /s/ as common with other early borrowings. Doublet of labaha and labasa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈbasa/, [nɐˈba.sɐ]
• Hyphenation: na‧ba‧sa

Noun

nabasa (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)

1. (obsolete) razor

   Synonyms: pang-ahit, labaha, labasa, (obsolete) kalumpagi

References

• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 441: “Nauaja) Nabaſa (pp) C. con que ſe hace [la raſura], y ala llaman todos anſi”