panunuya

Tagalog

Etymology

From pan- +‎ tuya (“taunt; insult; jeer”) with reduplication of the first syllable of the root.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /panunuˈjaʔ/ [pɐ.n̪ʊ.n̪ʊˈjaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧nu‧nu‧ya

Noun

panunuyâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈᜓᜈᜓᜌ)

1. insult; taunt

Further reading

• “panunuya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018