hukot
Czech edit
Noun edit
hukot m inan
Declension edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hokkien 負骨/负骨 (hù-kut), according to Manuel (1948).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog)
- Syllabification: hu‧kot
Noun edit
hukot (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜃᜓᜆ᜔)
- stooping; lowering of one's head
- (figurative) surrender; admission of one's defeat or inferiority
Related terms edit
Adjective edit
hukót (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜃᜓᜆ᜔)
Further reading edit
- “hukot”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 25