gising
English edit
Verb edit
gising
- present participle and gerund of gise
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Compare Kapampangan gising (“awakening”), Bikol Central gisong (“waking up”), Cebuano gisong (“shake into consciousness”), and Tausug gisung (“to wake up for a short time”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
gisíng (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜐᜒᜅ᜔)
- awake; awakened
- Gising na ang tatay mo.
- Your father is awake.
- alert; active
- (figurative) well-informed
- Synonym: mulat
Noun edit
gising (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜐᜒᜅ᜔)
- waking up from sleep
- Synonyms: paggising, pagkagising, pagpukaw
- time when one wakes up
- act of waking someone up from sleep
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “gising”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- 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 245: “Deſpertar) Giſing [(pp) el dormido]”
- page 518: “Recordar) Giſing (pp) el que eſta durmiendo”