nabasa
Ilocano edit
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nabasa
Tagalog edit
Etymology 1 edit
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nabasa (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)
Verb edit
nábása (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)
- (dialectal) progressive aspect of bumasa
- Synonym: bumabasa
Etymology 2 edit
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nabasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)
Verb edit
nábasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)
- (dialectal) progressive aspect of bumasa
- Synonym: bumabasa
Etymology 3 edit
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.
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nabasa (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜊᜐ)
References edit
- 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”