purol

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pu‧rol

Noun

purol

1. shorts; pants worn primarily in the warm weather that do not go lower than the knees
2. boxers; a pair of boxer shorts

Verb

purol

1. to put on shorts
2. to wear pants

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:purol.

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pudul (“blunt, dull”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /puˈɾol/ [pʊˈɾol]
• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: pu‧rol

Noun

puról (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜇᜓᜎ᜔)

1. bluntness; dullness (of blades or of the intellect)

Derived terms

• kapurulan
• magpapurol
• mapurol
• mapurol ang ulo
• papurulin
• pumurol
• purulin

 

Further reading

• “purol”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pudul”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI